There was a sense of being ill-prepared for the moment.
Gerrit Cole had pitched well through five innings. But two issues had built his pitch count and put the Yankees behind. In the first inning, after striking out Jose Altuve and Jeremy Pena, Cole hit Yordan Alvarez on the toe with a breaking ball with his ninth pitch of the inning. He would not give up a run, but by the time he extracted himself, Cole had used 21 pitches.
That is why Cole had 84 pitches entering the sixth and the Yankees trailed 2-0. Alex Bregman led off with a double. At that point, the Yankees had scored four runs in the first 23 innings of this series. They had one hit against Astros starter Cristian Javier, which meant one hit in the 12 innings he had pitched at Yankee Stadium this year. The Yankees were down 2-0 in games and 2-0 in Game 3.
“That’s a fair question,” Boone said Sunday. “That’s one way to look at it, but also at that point, I’m kind of thinking if we got to go to someone there early in the sixth, I’m going to need ’em all to get back around. I did like Trivino at the bottom of the lineup there. But I think there’s a case, especially once you get the bases loaded there, that Holmes or even Loaisiga could have been in play there.” If I have a problem with Boone’s managing style it is emphasized here.
But here Trevino and Blake were much quicker than necessary. Yuli Gurriel blooped a first-pitch single to right to load the bases. Boone came out of the dugout with Cole at 96 pitches. He stopped short of the first-base line and seemed to mouth, “Are you OK?” to Cole. Boone said both Saturday and Sunday he was doing that to give Trivino more time to warm. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST
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