Sale did show up as the Ace, after a terrible team night before. Stopped NYY and set the tone, after Devers 4 run bomb. Takes a lot of pressure off tomorrow night. No team would want to face Severino with a "must" win. Now a victory tomorrow would be a real statement in Yankee stadium.
Was that not a place for Holt to PH for NUNEZ. He gave that last pitch no effort of any kind. Don't want to run him into the ground but he has been lost in this series.
Check Beni in a week and see if he is steady or slumping over the next several games. He, like JBJr, is streaky and I think the current trend is down. If I'm wrong, I'll buy him 2 bags of seeds.
Yankees look like Red Sox last night after 5 . But pile on BoSox and add to the total. Good D tonight as usual including Nunez and Devers play on Gardner
Can't figure it out either. Not like Nunez is younger, faster or a better hitter or fielder. Must be a story somewhere in there. Nunez should get a week off to rest a la Cora's tactics . Maybe Holt eats too much at the postgame buffet and Cora can't get to the trough
You can almost see the Boston hitters mistakenly saying, let's just get it over with and swing away. Bogaerts, Moreland and Nunez were asleep at the wheel. Bad idea to let it run through the dugout. Sale is not pitching a complete game and hold on to Kimbrel for a series winner tomorrow night.
Sale does that and shuts the Y's out through 2. But he's not especially economical tonight and will be at 100 or more in the 6th inning. That means the Barnes, Kelly, Hembree, Workman parade will start. Who has the right stuff later tonight?
Let Sonny run out the full 100 pitches and save your pen. Oh wait that would be about the 4th inning.
Sale must be amazed at having runs to let him work the plate a litle easier but with 24 outs to go, never get too cocky