Thanks to a spirited battle on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees lived to fight another day in the best-of-three American League Wild Card Series to force a Game 3 with the Red Sox tonight. We have now reached a single elimination game to determine which of these longtime rivals will advance to play the Blue Jays in the Division Series, and whose 26 players will be forced to go their separate ways for the long offseason.
The current atmosphere certainly lends itself to a classic potentially being in the works. Regardless, Game 3 of the 2025 AL Wild Card Series will join four other games in the history of this rivalry that were true do-or-die showdowns. And yes, that number is four—not three as has been discussed elsewhere today—because while the first was technically a regular-seas