The San Francisco Giants won a club record 107th game – and the National League West, while the 106-win Los Angeles Dodgers saw their eight-year run of division titles stopped.
The New York Yankees could not score a run all day against the Tampa Bay Rays – until towering slugger Aaron Judge’s infield single drove in the only run in a 1-0, walk-off victory that secured a ticket to the American League wild card game.
And the Boston Red Sox erased a four-run deficit over the final four innings before Rafael Devers’ second home run – in the top of the ninth inning – to defeat the Washington Nationals 7-5 and earn the other AL wild-card slot. Boston earned the right to host the hated Yankees on Tuesday night at Fenway Park.
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The Yankees and Red Sox will face off Tuesday night at Fenway Park, Gerrit Cole facing Nathan Eovaldi and the winner advancing to a five-game AL Division Series beginning Thursday at the East champion Rays.
The Dodgers will send 37-year-old Max Scherzer, the Missouri native and NL Cy Young Award favorite, against the St. Louis Cardinals and 40-year-old Adam Wainwright, Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
