The Yankees also made their selections in these other scenarios: The Yankees lose such a tiebreaker against the Red Sox and Blue Jays and win it against the Mariners, so there’d be a wild-card game at Yankee Stadium Tuesday only if it’s Mariners-Yankees. The winners of the two games advance to Tuesday’s AL wild-card game, to be played at the site of the club with the better head-to-head record. The Mariners then wound up with the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Aaron Judge celebrates after driving in two runs against the Red Sox. They opted to go to Fenway to face the Red Sox, whom they swept in Boston last weekend. Then the Yankees, as the third seed, got to select their opponent. Not surprisingly, as the top two seeds, the Red Sox and Blue Jays chose to host the play-in games. The teams are seeded based on their collective head-to-head records against the other three clubs, which results in this: That would occur if the Yankees lose to the Rays, the Red Sox lose to the Nationals, the Blue Jays beat the Orioles and the Mariners beat the Angels. On Saturday, the four teams involved in the unprecedented wild-card hunt made their selections for the potential of all of them finishing with identical 91-71 records. A four-way tie for the American League wild card would send the Yankees to Fenway Park on Monday to take on the Red Sox for a 163rd game and the right to be an actual wild card, with the Blue Jays and Mariners facing off in Toronto in the other contest.
