NEW YORK -- For three innings in the decisive Game 3 of this American League Wild Card Series against the Yankees, Connelly Early looked calm in his fifth Major League start, matching zeros with fellow rookie, Yankees righty Cam Schlittler.

But in the fourth inning, the momentum changed, beginning with a fly ball to right-center that Ceddanne Rafaela took a circuitous route on and dropped on the dive for a double by Cody Bellinger.

That was the start of a four-run inning in which Early gave up three more hits, one walk and another misplay in the field -- an error by Nathaniel Lowe.

As the inning built, the question was this: How swiftly would manager Alex Cora go to his bullpen? Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag. Click here to view original asset

In Game 2, Cora pulled

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