 Thanks for coming back with us on the WB Mason post-game show as the Yankees salvaged the finale of this three game set against the Mets with a 4-2 victory. Time to hear from Aaron Boone in the manager's report brought to you by Geico Arcrescier leading off the questioning. Aaron, just big picture first and foremost how big was this before you go out to Seattle? Yeah, huge. Obviously what we're going through right now and some of the gut punches we've had of late for guys to really step up in the nightcap tonight and at least salvage something today. Hopefully it's something that we can build upon and take with us to the West Coast. What did you see out of Chad? 35 pitches, 27 strikes. He was electric, but what did you see from the dugout? That he was just terrific command, just really from Jump Street throwing the ball how and where he wanted to mix in the curve ball in with really locating the fast ball how he needed to. Really efficient. Obviously a little reluctant to send him out there for a third inning especially after getting it out in the earlier game. But he certainly wanted the ball and he went out and was dominant and efficient there in that third inning and just a huge effort for us. Did you have that discussion with him in between innings? Did that happen? I did, yeah. And he wanted to go back out there? Yeah, he was good to go. He said I'm good to go and I kind of deliberated on it a little bit, but Si was going to let him go and he delivered. Thanks, Aaron. Tom Mariam, please unmute. Aaron, what kind of a lift did you get from Cortez tonight? Nester was great to start things off. You know, we're kind of saying after obviously another tough one this afternoon as Nester was walking down the hallway to go out in the clubhouse, walking down the hallway as he got ready to head out to the bullpen, I said to someone, he's probably the perfect guy to go out there. And he pitches without fear. He loves what he does. There's joy the way he plays the game and that's what he did and went out and said a great tone for us. To be able to go into the fourth, I was really only kind of counting on 50 pitches from him, but he was so efficient that I let him go a little bit further and just a huge, huge outing for us when we really needed it. Brian, hope you have the next question. Brian, not working again, buddy. We'll come back to you. Matthew Robertson, go ahead. Aaron, you got the all-star break coming up here. It's kind of a natural point to take stock of things and assess how the season has gone. What are your goals for this team before the all-star break gets here? No, we go to Seattle. That's what we have. That's a young team that's playing well. Our focus is essentially like a red-eye flight tonight out there. We have an off day to gather ourselves a little bit and we got to go play well in Seattle. That's where our focus lies. Justin Walters, you have the next question. Hi, Aaron. Following up on that, making sure that these feelings don't carry over to next week. Is there an extra importance to finish off this first half before the all-star break to make sure that you guys are getting some consistency moving forward? Yes, yes. I think we understand what's at stake. I think we understand what the hole we've dug for ourselves and we understand the importance of every game. We've got to go play well. We understand that. We've talked about it a lot. We're going out west with a lot on the line. Brendan Cutty, you have the next question. Aaron, on Soul, of all this figures out, whatever he's going through, would you consider green as your clothes are going forward? I'll consider a number of things. Green, low, those would be conversations that we have, but we may not have that option Tuesday with greeny and lower. It could be down. We'll have those conversations and try and do what's best for the team and for those individuals. Have you spoken much about this or between games, just about what you thought was off in that first game? Yeah, we've been diving in each and every day between Matt and Hark and working on delivery things, changing up some routine things, changing up some pregame things. Yeah, we've been having a lot of conversations, pitch selection, those kind of things. Yes. Chris Sheeran, back to you. Hey Aaron, just a quick one on, I know you couldn't do it tonight because King pitched in this series earlier, but considering he has a 190ERA coming out of the bullpen and what you're getting out of Nestor, have you thought about possibly putting those two together in the future, maybe piggybacking? Yeah, we could have something like that in play, first game in Houston potentially, where we'll need a spot there and depending on how guys are used in the Seattle series, we'll try and come up with a plan to get through that. And what about the ending, the second ending, the bun by O'Dore? What did you think? That seemed like it gave you guys a little bit of a spark before Geo came up there. Yeah, it was huge. It's something that Rugi does well going that way. It's something he practices a lot, certainly in his toolbox and just really well executed. Obviously, worst case scenario there, he gets the runner over to third with less than two outs, but being aggressive with it and playing for a hit as well. And he executed perfectly, getting it by the pitcher there, able to beat it out and then Geo with a big swing.