Phillies manager Joe Girardi (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Joe Girardi took out Phillies star Aaron Nola and then the Yankees feasted.
It’s safe to say the one thing that drove New York Yankees fans absolutely crazy when Joe Girardi was the manager in the Bronx was his penchant for overthinking when making pitching changes. His 12-inch thick binder that guided his strict decision-making hardly made anyone happy.
Whether it was yanking a starter too early or constantly playing matchups with the bullpen, Girardi’s ways were very much an inexact science. And how can we be surprised one of his pitching changes on Wednesday night helped lift the Yankees to victory against the Phillies?