Yankees manager, Joe Girardi, made the call to send Masahiro Tanaka to the hill today instead of giving him another day and pitching him tomorrow. It was the kind of decision that managers make a hundred times a season and no one notices. Or, if they do see, they quickly forget when the decision results in a win for the team.
But for the Yankees and Girardi, if anything can go wrong now, it will. And it did as Tanaka managed to get through only four innings while giving up eight hits and five big runs.