Unlike J.A. Happ, Masahiro Tanaka and Luis Severino, the three candidates to start Wednesday night’s AL wild-card game against the A’s at Yankee Stadium, two main cogs in the Yankees’ lineup have never tasted the postseason atmosphere.
Third baseman Miguel Andujar is 23 and second baseman Gleyber Torres is 21. They will make their postseason debuts against the A’s in the Yankees’ biggest game of the season.
Aaron Hicks got his first whiff of the postseason last year when the Yankees advanced to Game 7 of the ALCS and lost. His advice to the neophytes is direct.