{"id":42842,"date":"2025-10-02T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chisholm-resurrects-yankees-with-epic-game-forces-game-3-vs-red-sox\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:18:21","slug":"chisholm-resurrects-yankees-with-epic-game-forces-game-3-vs-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/chisholm-resurrects-yankees-with-epic-game-forces-game-3-vs-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Chisholm Resurrects Yankees with Epic Game: Forces Game 3 vs. Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"In a crucial night, after being benched in the previous game, Jazz Chisholm Jr. proved his worth with a stellar performance that kept the New York Yankees’ aspirations alive. His performance, full of dynamism and athleticism, was key in the 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the second game of the American League Wild Card Series.\n\nChisholm shone both defensively and offensively, making a crucial play in the seventh inning that prevented a run for the Red Sox. Furthermore, from first base, he scored the run that broke the tie in the eighth inning, driven in by a single from Austin Wells, thus forcing a decisive third game.\n\nThis matchup will mark the fourth direct elimination postseason game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, and the first since the 2021 wild card game, won by Boston.\n\n

“Anything to help us win. Everything was clear before we got to the field today. After leaving the field yesterday, it’s win the next game. It’s win or go home for us. It’s about winning,” Chisholm declared.<\/p>Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAfter being excluded from the starting lineup in the first game against the left-handed pitcher Garrett Crochet, Chisholm entered as a defensive replacement. Manager Aaron Boone explained that, although it wasn’t his ideal handling, he needed Chisholm to give his best on the field.\n\nIn the seventh inning, with the score tied and runners on first and second for the Red Sox, Chisholm made a spectacular defensive play by stopping a hit by Masataka Yoshida that seemed to be heading to right field. His effort prevented Boston from taking the lead. Fernando Cruz, Yankees reliever, highlighted the importance of this play.\n\n

\"Jazz<\/figure>\n\nOne inning later, Chisholm earned a valuable walk with two outs against Garrett Whitlock. Wells, after a full count, hit a changeup from Whitlock that fell inside the right field line. Chisholm, taking advantage of his speed, scored with a spectacular headfirst slide, beating the throw and unleashing the euphoria of the crowd.\n\n

“Any ball a fielder moves to his left or right, I have to score, in my head. That’s all I was thinking about,” Chisholm stated.<\/p>Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe first two runs for the Yankees came with less effort. Ben Rice hit a two-run home run in his postseason debut. The Red Sox tied it with a Trevor Story single in the third inning.\n\nAaron Judge praised Chisholm’s maturity and his ability to move on from what happened. With a win on Thursday, the Yankees could be the first team to win a wild card series after losing the first game since the three-game format was implemented in 2022. The Toronto Blue Jays, the number one seed in the American League, await in the Division Series, with Game 1 scheduled for Saturday.\n\nChisholm attributed his recovery to a video game session after the first game, playing “MLB The Show” as the New York Aliens. The player stated that he “mercy-ruled” someone to release stress.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a crucial night, after being benched in the previous game, Jazz Chisholm Jr. proved his worth with a stellar performance that kept the New York Yankees’ aspirations alive. His performance, full of dynamism and athleticism, was key in the 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the second game of the American League […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3210,100,4260,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-42842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","9":"tag-red-sox","10":"tag-wild-card","11":"tag-yankees"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}