Managing the Yankees, with their abundance of outstanding talent should be far easier than manager Aaron Boone makes it. In his rush and zeal to win, he causes himself and his team problems they don’t need. It’s about time he learned who his players are.
In the final game of the series versus the Houston Astros, Yanks’ starter Masahiro Tanaka was dominant through six innings, allowing no runs and five hits with just 71 pitches thrown starting the seventh-inning.
The Astros began the inning with two scratch singles by Yuri Gurriel and Josh Reddick. Then Tanaka, still throwing well, was deemed by the plate umpire to have hit Alex Bregman with a pitch, that on replay certainly didn’t look to have touched him.