At the end of October, Mr. Aaron Boone took action. November had a big problem.
Kerritt was pulled in the seventh inning, giving up just four hits and one run on 88 pitches after giving up a leadoff single to starter Teoscar Hernandez.
Speaking on Fox’s World Series postgame show, Jeter tore that decision to pieces.
“Look, I know we talk about this all the time, ‘The day we played…Al Leiter pitched Game 6 and threw 140-something pitches,'” Jeter began.
“Gerritt Cole dominated this game. He dominated the game! And if he gets out after 88 pitches I don’t know what the reason isIt’s not just in this game tonight, but the domino effect, [but] Tomorrow’s game and the rest of the series. I think when you have someone like Gerrit Cole is dealing with tonight, you leave him there as long as you can.
Jeter and Boone were teammates on the Yankees in 2003, when Boone hit a home run to beat the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS that year.
The immediate “domino effect” that Jeter refers to is that the Yankees have run out of pitchers.
In the seventh through ninth innings, the Yankees torched Clay Holmes, Tommy Conley and Luke Weaver.
The game went into extra innings and with a 3-2 lead in the top of the 10th, Boone brought in Jake Cousins.
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With the Dodgers on first and one out on second, Boone turned to Nestor Cortes for a high-scoring situation facing the power trio of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.
Cortez eventually gave up a grand slam to Freeman as the Dodgers won 6-3.
After the game, Boone told reporters, “I thought [Cole] A little taxing” at the end of his performance.
“The last 20, 30 pitches, I thought he’d grind it out a little bit,” Boone said.
