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Red Sox beat Cubs 2-0 to sweep doubleheader after setting Wild Card Series matchup with Yankees · Best of: Features

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  Red Sox beat Cubs two zero to sweep doubleheader after setting wildcard
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  series matchup with Yankees. Written by Kyle Hightower. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Boston, the
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  AP, Wyor Abreu hit a two run double in the eighth inning,
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  and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox two zero
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  Friday night to sweep a doubleheader. Brayon Bello allowed for hits over
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  four innings and rookie Jedixon Pyez won one, gave up three hits
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  in five innings with four strikeouts In
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  his first big league win. Chicago dropped two games back of San
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  Diego for the top NL wildcard, the Padres host due Arizona later
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  Friday. Javier Assad 6-2 was the loser. Chicago starter David Peterson allowed
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  three its over five innings and struck out six. In the first
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  game, Connor Wong hit a tie breaking double in the seventh inning,
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  to help the Red Sox rally from a three run deficit in
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  a four three win that clinched the number five seed in the
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  AL playoffs. Boston will play its wildcard series for the second year
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  in a row at the New York Yankees, who won last season's
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  best of three matchup 2-1. It will be the seventh Red Sox
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  Yankees postseason series. Friday's opener was originally scheduled for Sunday afternoon, but
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  was moved up because a significant storm was forecast. The series finale,
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  which had been slated for Saturday night, will now be played on
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  Sunday afternoon in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Up next. Neither team had
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  announced Sunday pitching plans. See the AP's full MLB coverage here.