Major League Baseball’s biggest rivalry takes center stage Tuesday night in the 2021 American League Wild-Card Game. The Boston Red Sox host the New York Yankees in an elimination game with a trip to the ALDS on the line.

The AL Wild-Card Game starts at 8 p.m. ET from Fenway Park.

ESPN will be televising the game. Viewers can watch a live stream with WatchESPN or the ESPN app.

Gerrit Cole takes the mound for the Yankees against Red Sox starter Nathan Eovaldi. Cole defeated Eovaldi head-to-head less than two weeks ago as part of New York’s three-game sweep in Boston. The Yankees have a six-game winning streak against the Red Sox, though Boston won the season series 10-9.

With their ace on the mound, New York is favored on the road. The Yankees and Red Sox finished with the exact same record in the regular season.

Eovaldi beat the Yankees in Game 3 of the 2018 ALDS. Boston eliminated New York from the playoffs three years ago.

Prior to that matchup, the AL East rivals last met in the postseason in 2004. That’s when the Red Sox overcame a three-games-to-none deficit in the ALCS, taking four straight against the Yankees before going on to win their first World Series since 1918 and breaking the Curse of the Bambino.

In 2003, Aaron Boone’s 11th-inning, walk-off home run off Tim Wakefield lifted the Yankees past the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS. Boone is in his fourth season as New York’s manager.

In 1978, the Yankees defeated the Red Sox at Fenway Park in a one-game playoff to reach the postseason. Bucky Dent’s famous homer in the seventh inning of that contest gave New York the lead for good.

Tuesday’s winner will visit the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the ALDS on Thursday night.

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Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the New York Yankees reacts with Aaron Judge #99 after hitting a two run home run during the eighth inning of a game against the Boston Red Sox on September 26, 2021 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images
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