In October, every pitch feels like it carries the weight of a season. For the New York Yankees , that pressure now falls squarely on the bullpen, where Fernando Cruz, Devin Williams, and David Bednar have emerged as the team’s most trusted weapons heading into Thursday’s decisive Wild Card Game against the Boston Red Sox.

The Yankees’ relief corps has hardly been a model of reliability this year, but in a series marked by tension, chaos, and razor-thin margins, those three arms have given Aaron Boone something every manager craves in October: confidence when the game is hanging by a thread.

Fernando Cruz embraces the moment

If there’s a heartbeat to this Yankees bullpen, it might be Fernando Cruz. The right-hander, who has battled through more than most to reach this stage, didn’t hesit

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