Red Sox vs. Yankees Series Preview: Key Matchups & Players

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00:00All right, Red Sox-Yankees, Jack.

00:01Look, I know how this series is going to go.

00:04I'll check back with you in the ninth inning of Game 3

00:06when they get to that point.

00:07One team's up one run and one team's down one run

00:10because you know that this is going to be a fun competitive series.

00:12It's the only way it could go.

00:13Yankees will have Max Free tonight against Garrett Crochet.

00:16Total of seven.

00:18And you look, premier matchup, of course,

00:20when these two teams face off.

00:22Very close in records over the course of the season.

00:25So, I don't know.

00:27I'll flip a coin here.

00:28I think it comes right down to the wire.

00:30I was actually going to wait a little bit.

00:32You text me in the ninth,

00:33but I'm going to text you in the 14th of Game 3.

00:35Again, we go back to the normal extra innings rules.

00:37There's no place to run her.

00:39I mean, we're going to go deep in Game 3.

00:41The game that does fascinate me, if we get there, is Thursday.

00:46It's Cam Schlittler, the rookie right-hander for the Yankees,

00:48and then the Red Sox can absolutely counter with a rookie of their own.

00:51Is it going to be Connolly Early,

00:53who looked really good at the end of the year?

00:55So, you've got Crochet and Freed in Game 1.

00:57That is an ace off.

00:58Those are the two shiny new toys.

01:00Crochet, the trade acquisition.

01:01This past offseason, free, the $200 million free agent signing.

01:05And then you go to Game 2,

01:06the extended Brian Baio for the Boston Red Sox

01:09against another big-money lefty in Rodon.

01:11And then throw some stuff at the wall and see what sticks in Game 3.

01:15Are we going to see a whole bunch of rookies?

01:17Are we going to see Early and Peyton Toley for Boston?

01:20Bullpen advantage does go to Boston,

01:22as weird as that sounds with the big names that are in the Yankee bullpen.

01:24But don't sleep on Aaron Judge, as weird as it sounds.

01:28I know that he has this negative stigma attached to him in the postseason.

01:32But Aaron Judge can absolutely swing it.

01:35And, you know, the lefty Crochet certainly is a nice matchup for Judge in Game 1.

01:40I look at this Red Sox lineup against back-to-back lefties in Freed and Rodon,

01:44and I say, okay, how do you handle it?

01:46The answer is really well.

01:47They had a 740-team OPS against left-handed pitching this year,

01:51top-five team against lefties in all of baseball.

01:53So it seems like advantage Red Sox, but we just have no idea.

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