The Yankees-Red Sox wild-card game should start two hours earlier

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Tuesday night at 8:08 p.m. in Boston, Red Sox pitcher Nathan Eovaldi is scheduled to throw the first pitch in the American League wild-card game. American sports has no greater rivalry, the Sox and Yankees are both very hot teams, and the most exciting innovation in the last 30 years of baseball is this single winner-take-all elimination game that is the wild-card playoff.

Yet, I’ll still probably fall asleep. That’s because the game will probably end after 11:30 and might last into the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

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