MC: I’ll begin with the question most Yankees fans are probably wondering about — will we see any sort of retaliation during this series for Tyler Austin getting plunked back in April, or are these next three games too important to risk losing someone from the 25-man roster?
TK: Well, I would hope that they would be way too important. But with baseball players that are so vengeful and so remorseless, you never quite know. I think they got most of it out of the way and when you get to a point like this, where you have the best records in the game, and it’s such a big game and such a big rivalry — and it’s so good for baseball, the last thing you want, frankly, is a fight.