AL Wild Card predictions: Yankees vs. Red Sox expert picks from The Post

The Post’s baseball experts make their picks for the Yankees-Red Sox best-of-three AL Wild Card series beginning Tuesday.Most of the vaunted Yankees starting pitchers are at their best lately, and the Red Sox, streaky all year, are in an offensive funk.They’ve scored 13 runs in their past eight games.For the Yankees, Bostonians Cam Schlittler and Ben Rice lead the way. The Yankees rotation has been their backbone all season, carrying the lineup through its most miserable times of the year.The starters will do it again here during a low-scoring series.

The Yankees have survived this long without Aaron Judge and have their pitching lined up, so they should be able to generate enough offense to get by a Red Sox team that’s struggled to score lately.Expect three close, low-scoring games between two talented teams, but the Yankees starting pitching is the difference-maker.The Yankees starters (including those in the bullpen) are vital, and so is their lefty hitters’ ability to do damage against so much Red Sox lefty pitching in a ballpark that favors lefty power.My gut says the Yanks get enough of both to get by.

If this series were held a month ago, I’d have reversed this, but the Sox leaked oil in September and shed much of the pixie dust that helped get them this far....