by Mr. November had a big problem with a move Aaron Boone made at the end of October.
Boone pulled Gerrit Cole in the seventh inning after giving up just four hits and one run on 88 pitches after the starter gave up a leadoff single to Teoscar Hernandez.
Speaking on the Fox World Series postgame show, Jeter tore into the decision.
“Look, I know we talk about it all the time, and I don’t want to be one of those people who says, ‘Back when we played…’ but we talked about how, when we played in 2000 played against the Mets.” “Al Leiter pitched Game 6 and threw over 140 pitches,” Jeter began.
“Gerrit Cole dominated this game. He dominated the game! And if you turn him off after 88 pitches I don’t know for what reasonIt’s a domino effect not just on this game tonight, [but] Tomorrow’s game and the rest of the series. I just think when you have someone who acts like Gerrit Cole did tonight, you keep him out there as long as possible.”
Jeter and Boone were teammates on the Yankees in 2003, the year Boone hit a walkoff home run to beat the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS.
The immediate “domino effect” Jeter is referring to is that the Yankees have run out of pitchers.
From the seventh through ninth innings, the Yankees fired Clay Holmes, Tommy Kahnle and Luke Weaver.
The game went into extra innings and with a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the 10th, Boone brought in Jake Cousins.
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With the Dodgers tied for first and second with one out each, Boone then turned to Nestor Cortes to handle the high-leverage situation against the potent trio of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.
Cortes eventually surrendered a walk-off grand slam to Freeman as the Dodgers won 6-3.
After the game, Boone told reporters that he was “thinking [Cole] got a little strained toward the end of his performance.
“The last probably 20, 30 pitches, I thought he was grinning a little bit,” Boone said.
