The New York Yankees are now two games into a new era of clean baseball, devouring the Red Sox 7-2 on Sunday Night Baseball and topping the Nationals 10-5 (in a game that was 10-0 with two outs in the ninth before Yerry de los Santos ran out of gas and Mark Leiter Jr. hung slop). But between the first and the second consecutive victory, Aaron Boone let some air out of their newly inflated tires, declaring (unnecessarily) that shortstop Anthony Volpe's return to action wasn't too far behind.
According to Boone pregame Monday, Volpe's two-day break qualifies as only a momentary "reset" (and an extremely necessary one, by all accounts).