While the Yankees brainstorm how to best sort out their postseason rotation, there’s still a chance they can do what they did in Wednesday night’s 4-1 win over the Rangers.
Using Chad Green as the opener at Yankee Stadium, they then turned to Luis Cessa and the right-handers combined to toss five shutout innings before Aaron Boone brought in the heart of his bullpen, with Adam Ottavino coming in to start the sixth.
The victory meant they improved to 11-2 when the Yankees start Green as an opener and it continued a solid run by Cessa, who has pitched nine shutout innings in his last four outings after three straight rough outings in mid-August, when he gave up seven runs in 5 ²/u2083 innings.