Yankees manager Aaron Boone says he felt comfortable with the ultimately costly decision to walk Mookie Betts
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00:00Aaron, you opted to intentionally walk Mookie to get to Freddy there. The bases
00:04loaded in that situation. Ultimately, did you deliberate a lot over that decision
00:08and why did you go with that? Just taking the left on left match up there. Yeah, no
00:14I didn't deliberate long. And Nestor had not pitched since September 18th. Why
00:18did you like him in that 10th inning? Just like the matchup, reality is he's been
00:23throwing the ball really well the last few weeks as he's gotten ready for this.
00:28You know, I knew with one out there, it'd be tough to double up Shohei if Tim Hill gets
00:33him on the ground and then Mookie behind him. It's a tough matchup there, so I felt convicted
00:38with Nestor in that spot. Nestor's history against Otani, why you like the matchup?
00:45I mean a little bit. I don't know if you ever love a matchup against Otani, but
00:49you know, I felt like Nestor could give us a shot at it.