Luis Gil was pitching a gem — his first in a while — when Rafael Devers stepped to the plate with one out in the top of the seventh.
Instead of calling on Luke Weaver — who was warming in the bullpen — to face the Red Sox slugger, Aaron Boone and the Yankees stayed with Gil.
Devers then did what he’s done so often against the Yankees — not just this season, but throughout his career: He homered.Asked if he considered removing Gil for Weaver in the seventh, Boone said he did “a little bit.
“We dig into that a lot, believe me,” Boone said of the Yankees’ approach. “Sometimes it’s time and place in a season and a guy comes in swinging well. He’s a great player. … We invest a lot into where to get him.”And as Devers proved when he took Tonkin deep on a 93 mph four-seamer up and away — and well out of the strike zone — there’s not much you can do to avoid his damage.
“He’s definitely a guy that’s performed incredibly well,” Boone said. “We’d like to do a better job against him.”He also made a fine play on DJ LeMahieu’s slow chopper to third to end the bottom of the eighth with a runner on base.He’s most dangerous with the bat — especially in The Bronx.Fortunately for the Yankees, the Red Sox won’t be back until September.
By then, who knows how the AL East standings will look, as the slumping Yankees have struggled against just about everyone since the middle of June.How Adrian Houser saved his season and provided a Mets bullpen solution: 'Now it’s a little bit more like Seth Lugo'N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg
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