The Yankees had an opportunity to add another all-time highlight to their decades of postseason heroics.

Instead, they ended up on the wrong side of playoff history.

In Tuesday night’s Wild Card Game 1, the Yankees became the first team in MLB postseason history to load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, then fail to score and lose the game, according to Opta Stats .

“They got us tonight,” manager Aaron Boone said after the Yankees’ 3-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox in the Bronx.

The Yankees loaded the bases against Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman behind three successive singles by Paul Goldschmidt, Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger, putting the tying run in scoring position and the winning run at first base.

But Chapman bore down to strike out Giancarlo Stanton, indu

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