Boston walked off Detroit 4-3 as Ceddanne Rafaela lined a 1-0 pitch to center that dropped after Parker Meadows leaped, sending Romy Gonzalez home with the winner. Jarren Duran tied it with an eighth-inning RBI, and the Red Sox clinched a postseason berth with two games to spare, two games clear of Detroit and three ahead of Houston.

Boston will play a road wild-card series, with Giolito slated for Game 2 and Crochet likely to start Game 1, while the club celebrated in Green Monster jerseys and eyed a rotation plan designed to maximize October results. A rookie addition, Roman Anthony, remains a hopeful spark as Boston rides this momentum.

Ceddanne Rafaela delivered a walk-off triple at Fenway to cap Boston's 4-3 win over Detroit and clinch their first playoff berth since 2021, with Jarren Duran tying the game in the eighth. The moment anchors Boston's late-season push in the wild-card race.

Across MLB, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge powered the Yankees to an 8-4 win to stay tied for the AL East lead. The Mets fell, while the Reds tied the NL wild-card race after a win, and Chicago lit up St. Louis 12-1 as Pete Crow-Armstrong joined the 30-30-30 club with Hoerner and Suzuki, Suzuki adding a grand slam in a seven-run seventh that reshaped the NL picture.

Boston clinched a postseason berth in dramatic fashion at Fenway, erasing a 3-1 deficit with late-inning rallies in the seventh, eighth and ninth. Ceddanne Rafaela lined a Tommy Kahnle fastball off the top of the center-field wall, scoring Romy González from first and delivering the winning run that sealed the playoff bid. Boston’s magic number had stood at one, and the clinch came as the AL race remained unsettled with two games left to play.

Two games remain as the Tigers, Astros and Guardians chase the final two wild-card spots. Blue Jays and A’s results also factor into the chaos, making late-September rotations and bullpen usage critical for fantasy managers eyeing postseason rosters and starting-pitching matchups in October.