NEW YORK — The Red Sox feel like a boxer that has been knocking down the champ again and again, yet no one thinks they can win the fight.

They’ve beat up the Yankees all year winning nine of 13 regular-season meetings, then kept hearing they have no shot to win this week’s Wild Card Series.

The Yankees are home for every game, they have Aaron Judge, they had the better overall record, they went into the playoffs hot … blah, blah, blah.

“You’ve got to play the game,” Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story said. “It’s not done on paper.”

Amen to that.

Look at the Red Sox now. Here they are up a game in this best of three after rallying Tuesday night for a 3-1 win at Yankee Stadium .

“That’s what makes baseball fun,” Masataka Yoshida said after delivering the biggest hit of the game, a two

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