The winner of the series will advance to play the Toronto Blue Jays, the overall No. 1 seed for the AL playoffs.

Garrett Crochet was in Boston's dugout on the day before the playoffs began when manager Alex Cora picked up the phone to the bullpen to contact a member of the front office.

Jazz Chisholm, who had been unhappy that he did not start in Game 1, made perhaps the biggest play of Game 2, scoring all the way from first base on a single down the right-field line by Austin Wells...