The Red Sox are one win away from ending the season of the defending American League champions.

In what is now the first year of a title contention window for Alex Cora’s group, his team has taken on a different identity than originally anticipated, and they’re just getting started.

“I would say scrappy,” said shortstop Trevor Story before Game 2 of the American League Wild Card series. “We have a tight-knit group. Our chemistry is off the charts. I think that serves us well. We have this belief in our team that we can get it done, kind of no matter what the score is early in the game, late in the game.

‘We are really confident in what we can do. It lends itself to a game like yesterday, where we are down for most of the game, we have a spark and we come back and win.”

The “scrappy” i

See Full Page