WINNER TAKE ALL: Best Strategy for Red Sox in Game 3

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00:00On the play where some are saying that Eaton should have scored, Alex.

00:04Some very smart people.

00:05Alex Cora?

00:06That's their opinion.

00:08I think it's easy from up there to say that he could have scored.

00:14They're not down there with us.

00:16That's right.

00:17Yeah.

00:17They are not.

00:20How about Jaron Durant dropping that ball and left?

00:23I didn't have a good angle, but if you ask him,

00:25I saw the replay afterwards, he just missed it.

00:28Yeah, he misjudged it.

00:31He's not a good left fielder, and he missed it.

00:32Yeah, he admits it.

00:34He should have made that play.

00:35Durant owned it.

00:36He said, I wear this one.

00:38So now we have Game 3 tonight, and Connelly Early,

00:41who is not even a full-time starter at AA when the season started.

00:45He's ready.

00:46His boys throughout, very calm.

00:49Obviously, he's going to be loud here.

00:51Two rookies, Game 3, wildcard Yankees, Red Sox.

00:54Imagine that.

00:55So it should be a fun night.

00:56Red Sox have a bullpen advantage.

00:58In this game tonight.

00:59And actually, it's very fortunate, looking back on it now,

01:03that the Red Sox lost this game,

01:05or that the Yankees won this game in the eighth inning instead of the ninth.

01:10If the game is tied going to the ninth inning,

01:13Cora goes to Chapman, he pitches the ninth inning,

01:16and he's probably not available this evening.

01:18However, because Chapman didn't pitch, he is available tonight.

01:22And the Sox, because they didn't have anyone really need to relieve the big guy in Game 1,

01:29they pretty much have everyone except Whitlock available this evening.

01:32Yeah, but if Chapman would have pitched, they would have been moving on.

01:38Well, my point is, if the Yankees don't score in the eighth inning, the game is tied.

01:42Right.

01:43Chapman would have come on and pitched a ninth.

01:44Ah, okay.

01:45And so maybe the game goes extra innings,

01:48and you wouldn't have had Chapman for this evening.

01:51The Yankees pitched Cruz, Williams, and Bednar both of the first two games,

01:57and all three guys had double-digit pitches in both of their outings.

02:02And none of those three guys pitched three games in a row during the season.

02:06So the Yankees and Boone are going to be without, I would bet, three of their key relievers.

02:13Bednar is good with pitch.

02:14He'd close again.

02:15He was too effective last night.

02:17Maybe so, but, again, I don't know how effective he's going to be.

02:20Again, he didn't pitch three games in a row at all this season.

02:23Yeah, but that's what you do in the regular season.

02:25That's not what you do in the postseason.

02:26I don't know if it's because it's load management not to get hurt.

02:30I don't know if it's based on his effectiveness in the regular season.

02:33Okay.

02:33Like, I think that you can come in and you can get, you can relieve twice one inning.

02:40But I'll tell you this, is that I would debate who's in better shape with their bullpen

02:44because Whitlock is such an important piece of this bullpen,

02:47and there's no way he pitches tonight.

02:48No.

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