So look, this theory given life by startling numbers that Austin Romine should replace Gary Sanchez behind the plate whenever Masahiro Tanaka gets the ball may be nothing but nonsense, but chances are the putative ace of the staff may just have a personal catcher for the next little while.
Because after consecutive starts tossing to Sanchez in which Tanaka could not get through three innings without yielding at least six runs, he looked like himself Friday with a blistering 13-strikeout performance over 7 ¹/u2083 innings in which he surrendered one run on five hits throwing to Romine.