Tim Hill’s Game 2 success only makes Aaron Boone’s Nestor Cortes decision look worse

LOS ANGELES — A time precocious and a dollar short.

The Yankees brought successful lefty Tim Hill successful nan bottommost of nan 5th inning connected Saturday aft going pinch Nestor Cortes successful nan 10th inning of Friday’s Game 1 of nan World Series that ended pinch Freddie Freeman’s historical expansive slam.

The results successful Saturday’s 4-2 Game 2 loss only made Friday’s determination look worse, arsenic nan side-arming lefty Hill came successful and sewage Game 1 leader Freeman to popular to short and past sewage Tommy Edman — who had homered and doubled earlier successful Game 2 — looking to extremity nan 5th pinch nan Yankees trailing by 3 runs.

Hill retired each 4 batters he faced — including nan first 2 successful nan sixth — earlier being removed for Clay Holmes.

It was different illustration of nan journeyman Hill, who nan Yankees picked up from nan moribund White Sox earlier successful nan year, getting batters retired — which is thing Cortes hadn’t done successful 37 days earlier he came into Game 1 aft missing complete a period pinch an elbow injury.

“Nestor I’m bully with,” Aaron Boone said of his Friday decision, successful which he opted for Cortes complete Hill.
The head noted that pinch 1 retired successful nan 10th successful Game 1, he wanted Cortes because he wanted a amended chance astatine a strikeout pinch 2 runners connected base, nan tying tally connected 2nd and go-ahead tally connected first.

If location were 2 outs, he would person gone pinch Hill, who pitches much to contact.

“Even aft nan fact, I consciousness for illustration that [Cortes decision] was nan correct move pinch 1 out,” Boone said.
Perhaps, but it didn’t look bully Saturday.

Hill has allowed conscionable 1 earned tally successful 7 postseason innings this year, pinch six hits, a locomotion and 3 strikeouts.

Hill declined to hypothesize really he would person done if fixed nan chance to transportation Friday.
“You can’t deliberation for illustration that,’’ Hill said.

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Of nan postgame controversy, Hill said, “I effort not to interest myself pinch that benignant of talk. It’s conscionable a distraction. There are a batch of distractions. I afloat judge successful Boone and each determination he makes. When it’s not my turn, it’s not my turn. … My occupation is to propulsion nan ball. He decides erstwhile and where.”

As for Cortes, nan lefty said he’d beryllium fresh to transportation again whenever called upon aft allowing nan game-winning expansive slam to Freeman successful Game 1 and that nan Yankees are assured his elbow is OK.

Still, pitching coach Matt Blake acknowledged he was worried astir Cortes’ mindset — astatine slightest to a grade — aft he allowed 1 of nan biggest gut-punch location runs successful franchise history.

“I americium a small bit, but possibly pinch him little than others,’’ Blake said anterior to Game 2 astatine Dodger Stadium. “He’s resilient and he seemed beautiful bully [Saturday] and I cognize he felt good, truthful we’ll see.”