Blue Jays to face division rival Yankees in ALDS
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The New York Yankees will face the Toronto Blue Jays in an American League Division Series after dispatching the archrival Boston Red Sox in a Wild Card Series.
TORONTO – The New York Yankees will face the Toronto Blue Jays in an American League Division Series after dispatching the archrival Boston Red Sox in a Wild Card Series.
The Yankees took the best-of-three series against the Red Sox 2-1 with a 4-0 win Thursday night in New York.
Rookie Cam Schlittler had 12 strikeouts in eight innings for New York. The Yankees scored all four of their runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, with Amed Rosario, Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells each driving in runs.
The first-ever playoff meeting between the Yankees and Blue Jays opens with games on Saturday and Sunday at 4:08 p.m. ET in Toronto before the series shifts to New York. The winner of the best-of-five series moves on to the AL Championship Series.
The Blue Jays won the regular-season series with the Yankees 8-5, which became crucial when the teams finished tied atop the American League at 94-68.
The Jays claimed the American League East title and home-field advantage until the World Series because of that tiebreaker, while the Yankees had to go through a tough wild-card round against their longtime foes from Boston.
Boston had defeated New York in their last three playoff meetings entering this post-season and took the first game of the Wild Card Series before the Yankees turned it around.
New York is led by superstar and defending American League MVP Aaron Judge, who batted .363 with one RBI in the Wild Card Series. Judge led the majors with a .331 batting average in the regular season to go along with 53 home runs and 114 RBIs.
