When Boone gave Judge a day off last Thursday I thought it would do no good - why give a break to a man who'd hit four homers in three days? Why break the momentum of a man on a roll?
Since then Judge is 2 for 24 with 15 strikeouts and the Yankees have scored seven runs in seven games.
For context, in the previous seven games Judge was 12 for 27 with 9 runs scored and 9 driven in - more runs scored than the entire team in the last seven games.
It's possible this is not Boone's fault and it's the fault of the Yankees playing sixteen games in sixteen days - or it could be something else entirely - but I can't help wanting to blame Boone.
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