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  NEW YORK Yankees to meet Boston Red Sox in playoffs for seventh
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  time. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice generated by Everlett. New York, the AP. Baseball's postseason
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  will start with one of its classic rivalries, Red Sox vs. Yankees.
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  New York will host Boston in a best of three wildcard series
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  at Yankee Stadium starting Tuesday, with the winner advancing to an AL
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  division series against Tampa Bay. I think it's kind of been in
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  the works here for probably the last month or so, Yankees manager
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  Aaron Boone said Friday. Obviously a tremendous rivalry. The teams had a
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  resurgent season after a really difficult start. I think they're really good.
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  I felt that way all year. Also real confident if we play
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  our game hand pitch like we're capable of, we got a good
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  chance to move on. Wilson Contreras, who leads the Red Sox with
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  twenty seven homers and eighty one RBIs, is uncertain for the series
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  after he was hit on his right hand by a pitch on
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  september seventeenth. Boston clinched the second wild card by rallying from a
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  three run deficit to beat the Cubs in A doubleheader opener. The
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  Red Sox fired manager Alex Kora and five coaches on april twenty
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  fifth after a ten seventeen start, and rebounded to reach the playoffs
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  in consecutive seasons, for the first time since twenty sixteen to twenty
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  eighteen. Promoted from Triple O'Worcester to an initial position of interim manager,
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  Tracy was given a three year contract on Tuesday. Boston was thirty
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  two forty six and last in the AL East through june twenty
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  fourth. A four game sweep of the Yankees at Fenway Park started
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  a thirty two five stretch That’s
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  included its first fifteen game winning streak since nineteen forty six. In
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  last year's series, Boston won the opener behind an 11 strikeout, 117
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  pitch performance from Garrett Crochet. Them. Yankees advanced with a 4-0 victory
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  in Game 3 when Massachusetts native Cam Schlittler struck out 12 in
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  8 innings. New York won this year's regular season series seven six.
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  The Yankees beat Boston in the nineteen ninety nine and two thousand
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  three AL Championship Series and last year's Wild Card Series, while Boston
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  rallied from a three zero deficit to win the two thousand four
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  ALCS, then won the twenty eighteen ALDS and twenty twenty one Wild
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  Card Game. That's what you want as a competitor, Red Sox outfielder
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  Roman Anthony said of the matchup. They're a great team. We're a
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  great team. We always play good baseball against them. They play good
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  baseball against us. It's going to be a fun one. Great place
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  to play. For us, where else would you rather be as a
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  competitor? The AP Sports writer Kyle Hightower in Boston contributed to this
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  report, see the AP's full MLB coverage here.