TORONTO — Yankees manager Aaron Boone thought about benching Ben Rice to start Paul Goldschmidt at first base for Sunday’s Game 2 of their Division Series.

It was a tough call, but not because Rice had a bunch of bad at-bats in the Wild Card Series clincher over the Red Sox last Thursday in New York or Saturday’s ALDS opener at Rogers Centre, a combined 0-for-7 with four strikeouts.

The reason Boone weighed a change is because Blue Jays rookie right-hander Trey Yesavage was so much better against right-handed hitters than lefties in his very limited big-league experience, three September starts.

Boone opted to stick with Rice, who hits righties better than lefties, over Goldschmidt, who kills lefties but struggles against righties.

“I definitely deliberated on that a little while, b

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