MLB Playoff TV Schedule 2018: When is ALDS, New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox, Game 1? Date, time, TV

The New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday to advance to an American League Division Series against the Boston Red Sox in the 2018 Major League Baseball Playoffs.

The New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics, 7-2, on Wednesday in the American League Wild Card Game to advance to an American League Division Series against the Boston Red Sox in the 2018 Major League Baseball Playoffs.

The Yankees were 9-10 against the Red Sox in the regular season.

Here’s the ALDS schedule:

(Best-of-5; x-if necessary)

All Games on TBS

Friday, Oct. 5: New York at Boston (Sale 12-4), 7:32 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 6: New York at Boston (Price (16-7), 8:15 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 8: Boston (Porcello 17-7) at New York, TBA

x-Tuesday, Oct. 9: Boston at New York, TBA

x-Thursday, Oct. 11: New York at Boston, TBA

For a team that finished with the best record in baseball — setting a franchise record for victories along the way — the Red Sox sure have a lot of questions about their bullpen.

Even as they coasted to their third straight AL East title, with two Cy Young Award candidates and two MVP contenders, not everything has gone smoothly for Boston this year. Red Sox relievers have been the problem — especially down the stretch in September, when they posted a 4.84 ERA that was the worst in the AL.

Manager Alex Cora said Wednesday he remained confident in his bullpen, insisting the late-season woes weren’t a local phenomenon.

“You look around the league in September, there were some great bullpens that became bad,” he said Wednesday as the Red Sox awaited the winner of the Oakland-New York wild-card game. “They were hit around. They were giving up leads.

“It’s the nature of 162 games,” Cora said. “We’re going to the same guys, and it seemed like some of them hit the wall.”

And part of that was because they just kept winning.

After victories in 17 of their first 19 games, the Red Sox led the division for all but a couple of weeks and never lost more than three in a row while breaking the 106-year-old franchise record with 108 victories.

The offense was potent, led by AL MVP favorite Mookie Betts, who is the first AL player since Mickey Mantle to lead the majors in both batting average and extra-base hits. J.D. Martinez hit 43 homers and led the majors with 130 RBIs and 358 total bases.

The starting pitching was also strong, led by Chris Sale, who was likely headed for the AL Cy Young before an injury limited him to 14 innings in August and September. David Price did not lose a game for two months. Rick Porcello, the 2016 AL Cy Young winner, is expected to start Game 3 of the AL Division Series, and either Nathan Eovaldi or Eduardo Rodriguez would be the fourth starter depending on the opponent.

But it wouldn’t be Boston if people weren’t complaining about the Red Sox.

(The AP contributed to this report.)