Ben Solomon for The New York Times
Game 4 of the American League Championship Series had been over for only a few minutes, but Yankees Manager Aaron Boone already knew he needed to perform triage on his team. The Yankees had played terribly in an 8-3 loss to the Houston Astros on Thursday night, leaving them on the brink of being eliminated from the postseason and falling short of a championship after a hard-fought 103-win season.
Boone rarely calls meetings in such situations — he mostly lets the players police themselves — but a performance like that in such a high-stakes game warranted intervention.