The Boston Red Sox will be a little light on established pitching in the Wild Card round against the New York Yankees. But Boston will have plenty of speed on the basepaths in the best-of-three series.

Alex Cora's 25-man roster for the Wild Card round consists of 12 pitchers and 14 position plays, the Red Sox announced Tuesday ahead of Game 1 in New York. Cora announced Monday that starting pitcher Lucas Giolito would be left off the roster this round as the righty deals with an elbow issue, which opened the door for left-handed rookie Payton Tolle to make the squad for the series.

Tolle, who went 0-1 with a 6.06 ERA across seven games (three starts), made it over fellow southpaw Chris Murphy, who had a 3.12 ERA in his 23 appearances for Boston during the regular season. But Murphy w

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