The Yankees’ 7-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night was not the kind of baseball game any manager would want to take home with him. It lasted 14 innings, over more than five hours, and by the time it was over, four Yankees had left the game either sick or injured. Better to forget about the whole thing for a few hours and go to bed.
Which Yankees Manager Aaron Boone eventually did, but at the ballpark. And before he could do that, he had to deal with all the problems created by Friday’s loss, such as filling new holes in the roster, coming up with a plan for his depleted bullpen and trying not to get frazzled by the fact that the next game, on Saturday afternoon, was 12 hours away.