The Yankees start the play -offs with two of their best bats on the couch.
Their line-up for game 1 of the Wild-Card series against the Red Sox on Tuesday included Ben Rice of Jazz Chishholm Jr. Not, while the Yankees stacked their right -handed strikers to cope with Aas Lefty Garrett Crochet.
Manager Aaron Boone said on Monday that Rice would be out of the line-up, with Austin Wells who catches Max Fried and the right-handed Paul Goldschmidt at first base.
But Chisholm, at the heels of a season of 30-30, also comes from the bank, because Rosario (6-out-9 in his career against Crochet) starts at second base and José Caballero Ryan McMahon replaces the third base.
Chishholm was hit on the left forearm on Saturday with a zinc shed of 97 km / h, but Boone expected that he would be good to go on Tuesday.
There was a case for McMahon who caught the third base, even though it was a bad link-to-left matchup against Crochet, because of his defensive value behind Fried, who generated the most ground balls this season until the third base of a pitcher.
Instead, the Yankees go for the offensive benefit of the right-handed Caballero, even though he has been against hook for 0-out-7 lives.
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