 time to hear from Aaron Boone about getting this win. It is the manager's report brought to you by Geico. Aaron just how badly did you guys need that one? Yeah it was yeah we needed we needed that so did enough did enough things well you know obviously the bullpen was terrific especially there and extra innings you know coming in holding them down Luke is licky after throwing two innings yesterday comes in has a good inning Sessa was really strong in his his one inning there and did enough things offensively you know I thought I thought overall pretty good at bats against glass now which isn't always the easiest thing to do you know thought we had it there in the ninth when DJ put a really good at bat on and lined out so some better things across the board not close to where we need to be but you know an important day today to pull that one out and a great a b there by by phrase to finish it off Meredith you got to unmute again sorry about that you mentioned the at bat by Frazier there and extra innings but what did you also think of that defensive play to keep it tied in you know I don't think he got a great read on it so the recovery on it and to lay out and and be able to secure it was I mean obviously huge at the time but but a great play to be able to lay out and hang on to it he needed every inch of it good Meredith Matt Robertson please unmute and Matthew Robertson from the New York Sailing News here I wanted to ask you specifically about like he mentioned another good outing for him I'm curious what you've seen particularly on that curveball that no one can seem to hit that's made him so effective this year you know he's he's he's been great you know I would say as good as his numbers are he's pitch better than that you know he's the times he's gotten hit he's been kind of dinked and dunked a little bit so really all his pitches you know his fastball plays way up he he's really able to spin the breaking ball you know he cuts the ball a little bit he's been huge for us and and today after pitching two innings yesterday was was probably staying away from him for the most part today and obviously once we got to extra innings we called down just to see he wanted the ball and and came in and had a real efficient inning against the top of their lineup so he's been you know he's been everything we we hoped he we were seeing in spring training he's carried that into the season and been really consistent for us just and with and you are second up a home run in as many days he wasn't really a guy who went up a lot before this season is that something that you guys are trying to work on with him or is it just happening naturally now make he's a line-to-line guy though make he had his best as a you know bat the ball lot of line drives and does spray the ball around and occasionally you know hit for some power the other way and so good to see him back-to-back days do that he had some other hard contacts in these last couple of days so you know good to see Maggie you know starting impacted a little bit Justin shackle go ahead they briefly touched on the bullpen performance but how do you sum up what they mean to this team on a night like this I mean they've been great all year you know it's no secret that our care our pitching has carried us the starters have been really strong for us but the bullpen's been there from jump street and it's allowed us to close out most of the games we we should and are supposed to win but you know a night like tonight where it's a you know scratch and claw back and forth and you know no one's having for them to keep them at bay you know especially there and extra innings to any two extra innings where runners on second was huge but that bullpen has been you know everything we could have hoped from the start of the season and each happening in extras with no runner on second the new rules what is the feeling like in the dugout is there heightened intensity in there maybe yeah I mean anytime you're in an extra inning game obviously you're in a tie ball game and you know and you know we're obviously in a division rival game and you know so there's there's intensity regardless once you get into extra innings but obviously that runner on second you know is is an added element added urgency I guess so maybe it does add a little bit of intensity but you know you shouldn't need much help with that when you're an extra innings ready Miller go ahead Karen you had said yesterday that Zach Britton would pitch tonight yeah he turned out he did not pitch did he have a setback no no no I'm sorry yeah he he threw a he threw a side yesterday he's pitching tomorrow and then he'll pitch again Saturday yeah sorry about that Greg spoke sorry Greg Joyce go ahead Karen were you trying to stay away from Glaber as much as possible or was there a reason you didn't go to him earlier a little bit a little bit but you know I like G in that matchup and then I knew I could you know shoot waiter there for defense or to run for for for John Carlo had he got on so I just like that match up in that spot and was you know just a little more inclined to go G there with Glaber today Andy Martino Aaron you've seen some such good stuff from Sanchez defensively lately do you do you worry that a moment like what he had in the base paths immediately impacted his confidence they took it out to the fielder no I wasn't worried about taking out to the field you know I'm you know you know some of the mistakes he's made on the base pass we get we got to clean up and get better at obviously but no I don't worry about that carrying over into his defense or his offense it's just you know something that you know it's that fine line of you know not wanting him to be too restricted out there and start you know lacking aggression or you know fear and of running into a mistake but just being making sure he's really educated on on you know where they're playing them you know what balls he can advance on things like that so it's just something we got to continue to to reinforce and drive home running to third on that with a ball hit to his right there I mean is there any other way to explain that but just was it to his right or to his left it might have it might have actually been because the shortstop was moving to the left look it wasn't the right play but that one can be a little bit in between sometimes sometimes if the shortstop's moving to his left but maybe hit the ball pretty pretty firm and Gary's not the fastest guy in the world you know so you know it's obviously a mistake read he's got to absolutely freeze on that but that one's at least a little more tricky than a ball that's right in front of you in the hole when the shortstop's moving to his left like he was so because of how hard the balls hit and where the fielders were it wasn't exactly and that's just something you got to be your pre-pitch preparation you know has got to be on point you got to know exactly where the fielders are especially as as players move around as the count changes players shift a little bit more you know obviously you got to know where the outfielders are and the outfielders arms and things like that but you also got to know exactly where the infielders are playing and and and then it's play you got to you got to make an instinctive read Lindsay Adler please unmute and you said you would have an update on Corey Kluber's latest imaging I said I said he I would know something potentially today I would probably have it tomorrow and then I can't sort of recall earlier in the game for a base shifting on DJ because teams just typically haven't done that are you seeing them position differently against him now no which one are you talking about now you're you're you're muted I mean I may have just missed it it was I think it was early in the game I remember seeing them sort of shift on him and I'm just curious if you're seeing no approach him a little bit different no usually they play him pretty straight up in the infield almost like a lefty but but usually always two guys on each side you know they'll play the third baseman off the bag you know almost like a left-handed hitter and then the outfield really shades around so that's pretty typical with what we see with DJ