The Red Sox went all in on Game 2, and that could be the reason they go all out.
“ Alex Cora managed this game as if there is no tomorrow,” Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay said on the YES Network postgame show. “Unfortunately for him, there is a tomorrow. Now, all that bullpen that he used to get all those outs, they’re going to have to be used again tomorrow.
”for over-managing Game 1, notably pulling Max Fried in the sixth inning even though he was cruising alongside Boston ace Garrett Crochet.Meet Connelly Early, the Red Sox rookie pitcher tasked with ending Yankees’ season in Game 3With a rookie making his fifth-major league start Thursday on the heels of asking his bullpen for 17 outs Wednesday in the losing effort, Cora risks potential taxation in a win-or-go-home game.“I felt like, at that point, kind of like, ‘We have to do this.’ … It doesn’t feel good, because you want the kid to go out there and get his experience and pitch deep into the game,” Cora said.After pulling Bello, Cora went to relievers Justin Wilson , Justin Slaten , Steven Matz , Zack Kelly , Garrett Whitlock — who is their most valuable reliever outside of closer Aroldis Chapman — and rookie lefty Payton Tolle for one out. Whitlock, who gave up the game-winning run on an Austin Wells RBI single, threw 47 pitches, making him unlikely to be available Thursday. “At that point, we’re trying to win that game. And it didn’t happen,” Cora said when asked about leaving Whitlock in so long. “We were doing everything possible to get to the top of the ninth with a tie game. We were trying to win that game, and it didn’t happen.”Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
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