After an All-Star campaign, Nestor Cortes will get the ball for a must-win ALCS Game 4, hoping to breathe life into a Yankees’ season.
Nestor Cortes rode the subway to Yankee Stadium last season and said that “nobody really recognized me,” both because of the mask he wore and his relative obscurity: Before last season, he sported a career 6.72 ERA in 42 games.After an All-Star campaign, Cortes will get the ball for a crucial Game 4 of the ALCS on Sunday, hoping to breathe life into a Yankees’ season that is near its end.to the Astros in Game 3 in The Bronx on Saturday, falling behind three games to none.
“I think the game plan was spot-on that time around,” said Cortes, who struck out seven in the outing. “Obviously it’s months since that happened. We’re going to be able to adjust based on what we have seen the last two games and [Saturday].” Being given the ball in Game 4 of the ALCS, hoping to earn the Yankees first postseason win over the Astros this season is one more chapter of a remarkable story that manager Aaron Boone is just about ready to stop discussing.