Aaron Boone caught heat for leaving Jazz Chisholm Jr. out of the Yankees’ lineup in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series. “I mean, I guess,” Chisholm himself wasn’t shy about voicing frustration. But when Boone put him back in for Game 2, Chisholm showed why he belongs.

He may have gone hitless at the plate (0-for-3), but he flashed with a clutch defensive play and then scored the go-ahead run from first in the eighth inning. The Yankees pulled off a late 4-3 comeback over the Red Sox to keep their season alive. And now with that momentum, Boone just dropped his latest update ahead of the win-or-go-home series finale.

“Jazz will be playing. I haven’t decided on my catcher, first base, all that.”

Expectedly, after what Chisholm has shown in Game 2, Boone will not play riskily in dropping him

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