Yankees beat Red Sox 9-0 in AL Wild Card Game 1

Yankees are only carrying 10 pitchers right now. Far from running out of arms, they're blowing the Red Sox out of the water right now, having only used five of their available pitchers. Some incredibly intelligent and sexually magnetic man wrote about this recently

I love when an intentional walk backfires Red Sox bullpen had a 2.72 ERA this season against everyone else, but it's 9.00 against the Yankees

This is tracking to go down as the most lopsided Wild Card Series in history. No team has ever been outscored by more than 10 runs in the best-of-three format. In the bottom of the seventh, the Yankees have outscored the Red Sox, 18-2, over these two games.

Since Trevor Story's game-tying home run in Game 2 vs. the Yankees last year, the Red Sox have sent 78 men to bat in the postseason against the Yankees without scoring another run. 10-for-73 (.137 BA), 4 walks, 27 strikeouts (35%).

The Red Sox and Yankees still only being in the 7th is some real throwback misery.

The Yankees have outscored the Red Sox 42-4 (37-4 if you remove the position player pitcher) in their last four games, all of which were pretty important. The first two were for the tiebreaker and then these two games.

As a Red Sox fan, I also think he should go to the Yankees game tonight to support them.

I hate the Yankees but I hate the Red Sox more and I enjoy watching them get stomped

No Anthony Red Sox at Yankees, Game 2: Jones DH, Rutschman C, Contreras 1B, Abreu RF, Rafaela CF, Durbin 3B, Sogard 2B, Story SS, Eaton LF, Gray P

Ben Rice now has two career 6+ RBI games vs the Red Sox, including playoffs That’s tied for the most such games among Yankees players vs BOS since RBI official (1920), with Yogi Berra and Lou Gehrig

As if this S-tier intro wasn't good enough from @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com, his next line after is my favorite of the entire piece and perfectly encapsulates what every baseball writer has been trying to express about Red Sox/Yankees for the past 30 years.

"Baseball took that perfect month and chewed away at it with its sharp little teeth, as it always does, pulling at hamstrings and snapping bones. [Yesterday], the capricious and hateful gods of baseball took it and provided it to one Ben Rice, handed him the thunderbolts to strike the heroes down."

Yankees fan catching a Red Sox homer, looking around, “Well, this is awkward.”

Game 1 is done and dusted. Next up: Max Fried takes the stage hoping to get the Yankees to the next round!

Today I watched the Red Sox v. Yankees wild card game and the Mexico v. Peru football match at the same time while occasionally checking Bluesky for Schmitt dunks. So I guess I know which one I am.