As soon as Yankees manager Aaron Boone made the decision to pull Max Fried after 6 1/3 innings with the Yankees leading 1-0 and nobody on base in Game 1 against the Red Sox, he opened himself up to second-guessing.

On ESPN, Karl Ravech asked ex-Yankees ace and fellow broadcaster David Cone, “Will there be any questions about taking Fried out after 99 pitches?”

“Absolutely, there’s a question with nobody on base,” Cone replied.

He added: “The question becomes, are you playing for the big picture or are you playing for one game? If the Yankees are going to go all the way to the World Series, Max Fried’s going to have to have seven starts this postseason. So do you push him that hard in the first one?”

Boone opted not top push him, and Luke Weaver proceeded to give up two runs in the

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