Former Yankees farmhand Garrett Whitlock came into the game to start the ninth and he ended his old club’s season.
It wasn’t entirely clean. With one out, Giancarlo Stanton wrapped a fly ball around the Pesky Pole in right field to make the game 6-2. But that wasn’t nearly enough, as Whitlock got both Joey Gallo and Gleyber Torres to fly out to right to end the game. The Red Sox will advance to a division series matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays, while the Yankees’ season, which once held so much promise, is over.
Chad Green was back out to start the eighth, and he started things off with a quick strikeout of Hunter Renfroe.