Saturday's Game 1 between the Royals and Yankees became the first postseason game with five lead changes before the Yankees pulled ahead for good in the seventh inning.
The division series matchups are set! World Series odds, playoff keys and predicted date of doom for all 8 teamshit a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning and saved at least one run with a sliding catch along the left-field line, boosting thehit two-run homers in a back-and-forth game in which the Royals wasted leads of 1-0, 3-2 and 5-4 and the Yankees failed to hold 2-1 and 4-3 margins. It was the first postseason game with five lead changes, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Kansas City pitchers tied their season high with eight walks, forcing in a pair of runs in the fifth inning. The Yankees were just 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position before Verdugo lined a single off losing pitcher., who singled leading off and stole second on a play allowed to stand following a video review.
Chisholm, playing third base this year for the first time after the Yankees acquired him from Miami at the July trade deadline, made three fine defensive plays, two with the help of first basemanAfter a day off between Games 1 and 2, the series between the AL-best Yankees and wild-card Royals resumes Monday night. These teams met in four playoffs from 1976-80, with the Yankees winning the first three and getting swept in the last.
Melendez's two-run homer in the fourth gave Kansas City a 3-2 lead, but Royals pitchers issued four seven-pitch walks in the fifth, forcing in runs with walks by. The Yankees had not gotten a pair of bases-loaded walks in a postseason game since Bullet Joe Bush and Joe Dugan against the New York Giants' Rosy Ryan in Game 6 of the 1923 World Series.'s two-run, sixth-inning single through a drawn-in infield that put the Royals ahead 5-4.
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