The Red Sox and Yankees meet tonight in a one-game playoff at Fenway Park for the first time since 1978, the year with Bucky Dent and all that, looking to finally, blissfully, even up that particular score. Boston postseason hero Nathan Eovaldi, a former Yankee, is on the mound for Boston, set to face Cy Young Award contender Gerrit Cole. There’s no other way to say it: It is one of the bigger games of our lives.
I am proud of this year’s team, and their simply making it this far is kind of amazing.