Sunday was a wild final day of the 2021 MLB regular season as four teams in the AL entered the afternoon with a chance of claiming the two wild-card spots.
At the end of the day the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox punched their tickets to the postseason by winning their final games – the Yankees beat the Rays in a 1-0 nail-biter and the Red Sox rallied from a 5-1 deficit to beat the Nationals 7-5.
Boston got a 2-run home run from Rafael Devers in the ninth inning and then Nick Pivetta made his first appearance as a reliever this season in the bottom of the ninth and closed things down with this ridiculous pitch:
2830 RPMs
68" of vertical break/drop.— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 4, 2021
Fooling Juan Soto is a hard thing to do but Pivetta did just that with that nasty curveball. My goodness.
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