NEW YORK -- If the Yankees trusted Sonny Gray to get through five innings in his Subway Series start Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, then Tommy Kahnle perhaps would have been the organization's first choice to come up from Triple-A to be short-term roster replacement for Domingo German until a fifth starter is needed again next week.
Kahnle, after all, is pitching well in Triple-A and he was a very valuable bullpen piece for the Yankees' last season.
But there is no trust in Gray, of course - nor should there be- and so the Yankees instead played it safe by double-jumping Double-A Trenton starter Domingo Acevedo in to be a long-relief option in case Gray has a short outing against the Mets.