Yankees count on losing.


Corey Seager blasts a 3-run homer in the 6th inning of Game 2 to break the game open.

Thank you, Yankees manager Aaron Boone, for being able to count.

Thank you for counting to ninety.

Thank you for taking out a surefire Hall-of-Fame pitcher and perennial Cy Young candidate when he was dominating because he hit ninety pitches.

Thank you for giving the Rangers a chance to salvage the doubleheader after flailing fruitlessly in the first game, losing 9-0 while leaving what seemed like a hundred runners on base (it was actually nine, most of those in the first three innings when the game was still on the line).

The Rangers went into the sixth inning of the second game of the doubleheader tied 1-1, but really suffering the effects of an entire day of being offensively challenged. They were facing Gerrit Cole, the Yankees ace and last year’s Cy Young award winner. He was dominating.

He got Wyatt Langford to pop up to start the sixth. But, unfortunately for him and Yankees fans, and fortunately for Rangers fans, that was his ninetieth pitch.

Out he came, dominance be dammed. The Rangers instantly scored five runs. Then, three more next inning.

Thank you, Aaron Boone, for being a slave to the pitch count. The Rangers really needed a win in that second game.

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