Yankees beat Red Sox 9-0 in Wild Card opener
MLB reports ten strikeouts by Cam Schlittler and a six-RBI game by Ben Rice.
The Yankees won Game 1 of their American League Wild Card Series against Boston 9-0 at Yankee Stadium, according to MLB's report published on September 30. The result came in Tuesday's opening game of the series.
Cam Schlittler struck out ten across six and one-third scoreless innings. Ben Rice hit two home runs, including a grand slam, and finished with six runs batted in. Those individual contributions are part of the completed-game account, not numbers from a later fixture.
A nine-run win in Game 1 is not the same as winning the whole series. Readers should keep the game result and series state separate, especially when another game is still to be played. This summary does not declare an advancement that the source has not reported.
Runs batted in and runs scored also answer different questions. Rice's six RBIs describe runs credited through his batting contribution; they are not an instruction to add six more to the already stated 9-0 result.
ScoreZaap has written this summary from the linked MLB report without copying its commentary or quotations. The baseball live view is for current games, while the Blog's box-score guide explains runs, hits and errors for readers following the postseason.