Game 1 of this Wild Card Series pivoted on these decisions:<\/p>\n
Red Sox manager Alex Cora entrusted his ace, Garrett Crochet, to throw a career-high 117 pitches.<\/p>\n
Yankees manager Aaron Boone pulled his ace, Max Fried, after 102.<\/p>\n
It was not the only reason the Yankees lost 3-1 on Tuesday <\/a>night. It was not the lone area of condemnation or concern that immediately put their 2025 season on life support.<\/a> But it was the most glaring element in why the Yankees need a two-game winning streak against the Red Sox or their season ends and the question if they can ever beat another heavyweight in October continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 1 of this Wild Card Series pivoted on these decisions: Red Sox manager Alex Cora entrusted his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2226,1281,51,27065,1266,61637,2228,50,62,2632,2225,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-268740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-max-fried","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-playoffs","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115298052605368245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}