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Saturday was a day game after a night game. It was expected. Monday was different — Monday marked the second time in three games Austin Wells was on the bench.

Rare for the team’s starting catcher.

“He’s been struggling a bit, obviously, offensively. A part of it is I want to keep Ben [Rice] in there and I think Ben has done a really good job behind the plate, too,” manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees beat the Twins 6-2 to open a three-game series in The Bronx. “There’s that. That also allows [Paul] Goldschmidt to be in the lineup. It’s just trying to get the best grouping out there

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