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. The game took place at Yankee Stadium on October 3, starting at 8:08 pm EDT. The Yankees won, 7–2, and advanced to face the Boston Red Sox in the American League Division Series. As a result of sponsorship agreements with Hankook Tire, the game was formally known as the American League Wild Card Game presented by Hankook Tire. This game started a part of the postseason where TBS broadcast postseason games because of the

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Background

New York entered the game with a 100–62 record, while Oakland was 97–65. They met six times during the regular season, with each team winning three times. This was New York's seventh playoff appearance as a wild card team. Since MLB's addition of a second wild card team in 2012, the Yankees had previously appeared in two Wild Card Games, a loss in

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and a win in

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. The Yankees' appearance represented the first time a 100-win team played in a Wild Card Game. The most recent time that a 100-win team had not won their division was the 2001 Athletics. This was Oakland's third playoff appearance as a wild card team. They had previously appeared in one Wild Card Game, a loss in

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. This was the fourth time the Yankees and A's met in postseason play—the Yankees had won the three prior meetings: the

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(3–0),

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(3–2), and

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(3–2).

Game results

Line score

Luis Severino was the

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for the Yankees, while the Athletics used Liam Hendriks as an opener. The Yankees scored two runs in the first inning, as Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer off of Hendriks. The Yankees added four runs in the sixth, on back-to-back doubles by Judge and Aaron Hicks, followed by a walk to Giancarlo Stanton and a triple by Luke Voit. In the eighth inning, Khris Davis hit a two-run home run for Oakland and Stanton hit a home run for New York.

References

External links

2018 Major League Baseball postseason schedule
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Background

Game results

Line score

References

Further reading

External links