Derek Jeter has turned into one of the best baseball commentators. He restores common sense. After the first two Dodgers games in Round 1 against the Padres, Mookie Betts hadn’t done anything offensively and the lesser talking heads were wondering if he was headed for a postseason meltdown.

Derek Jeter, sitting at the pregame desk, said he looked at hours of tape of Mookie Betts when he was going well and compared it to what he is doing now. He asked viewers and the other talking heads sharing the desk with him to look closely at a side-by-side comparison he had put together.

It showed Betts’s swing earlier int he season next to his swing from Game 1.

“Look closely,” he said.

“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with his swing. He’s fine. Guys can’t get hits every time.”

Then, a funny thing happened. Mookie Betts lifted the Dodgers, down 2-1 in a best-of-five, on his shoulders and carried them to playoff victory.

Cut to after Game 1 of the World Series. Derek Jeter was the lone voice wondering aloud why on earth Yankees manager Aaron Boone removed his ace Gerrit Cole after just 88 pitches. He was dominating. Six innings. One run allowed. No walks. Only four hits. His team winning 2-1.

Then, Boone pulled him. For no apparent reason other than that’s how it’s done now. On a night they honored Fernando Valenzuela before the game, a pitcher who threw eight consecutive complete games in his first eight games as a rookie back when you never removed a dominating pitcher, the Yankees manager removed Cole.

Jeter, the ex-Yankee, worried that doing so would not only affect that game (which it did) but also have a ripple effect on the rest of the series. The more you run these relievers out there, the more you are tempting fate that one of them is going to have a bad game and the more comfortable and familiar you are making them to opposing hitters.

But, more than that, you are giving the other team a shot they otherwise would not have had. Aaron Boone removes Cole. The Dodgers come from behind twice, with a run to tie it, then four in the bottom of the tenth the win it.

Of course, Game 2 saw the Yankees starter Carlos Rodon struggling a their relief pitcher put up zeros, but Jeter’s point was proven in Game 1 and will be again as these overexposed relievers try to get Dodgers hitters out in Games 3 and 4.

Removing Cole in Game 1 was 2020 Game 6 all over again. Tampa Bay was down three games to two against the Dodgers with their ace Blake Snell on the mound. They had a 1-0 lead in a game they absolutely had to win. Going into the sixth, Snell was as dominating as a pitcher could be. Nine strikeouts, no walks, one hit, no runs allowed.

Then he gave up a one-out single and his manager Kevin Cash panicked and had to get Snell out. They cut to a shot of Mookie Betts in the Dodgers dugout breathing a huge sigh of relieve, basically mocking Tampa Bay’s manager and thanking him for now giving them a chance.

The first batter the new relief pitcher faced doubled to tie the game, and the Dodgers went on to win that Game, which was the deciding game of the World Series.

Now, they have a commanding 2-0 lead heading to New York for Game 3 tomorrow. They are in line to win their second World Series in four years because opposing managers let them.