Yankees’ Aaron Boone waves white flag with game close, then Marlins win in rout

MIAMI — We’re not giving Yankees manager Aaron Boone a pass. His rookie mistake Wednesday night helped seal the deal in a 9-3 Yankees loss to the Miami Marlins. Yankees’ Greg Bird responds to criticism from Tyler Austin’s father Remember this night if the Yankees somehow end up making a run at the Red Sox only to lose the AL East…

MIAMI — We’re not giving Yankees manager Aaron Boone a pass.

His rookie mistake Wednesday night helped seal the deal in a 9-3 Yankees loss to the Miami Marlins.

Yankees’ Greg Bird responds to criticism from Tyler Austin’s father

Remember this night if the Yankees somehow end up making a run at the Red Sox only to lose the AL East title by a game.

The Yankees were trailing just 5-3 heading to the bottom of the seventh when Boone passed on all of his healthy elite bullpen arms to bring in rookie Chance Adams for a second career big-league outing and first relief assignment since 2016.

Just recalled from Triple-A on Wednesday, Adams bombed and the Yankees ended up getting blown out by an inferior team that should have been swept but ended up getting a split in this two-game interleague series at Marlins Park.

Adams gave up a run in the seventh, then three more in the eighth (two of them earned) on four hits before Boone went to A.J. Cole with the Marlins up six runs.

Why Adams?

You probably won’t like Boone’s reasoning.

“We would have gone to (Chad) Green if it would have got to one (run down) or better, but what we’re getting ready to come up against and not wanting to go too much to our high-leverage guys, we tried squeezing a couple innings out of Chance.”

What the Yankees are coming up against is a day off on Thursday, then four games in three days in Baltimore.

We understand that the Orioles have played the Yankees tough this season – they’re 6-6 in 12 games – but they’re also the worst team in baseball by a lot with a 39-90 record. So it’s not like the Yankees are heading into a series against the Red Sox or Astros.

Also, the Yankees still had plenty of available bullpen pieces the night after their 2-1, 12- inning win in Miami on Tuesday night, a game in which closer Aroldis Chapman left after six pitches due to a knee injury and setup reliever David Robertson was unavailable due to shoulder soreness.

Chapman now is on the disabled list, but Robertson insisted he was good to go by Wednesday. The Yankees, however, wanted to stay away from him another day and we’re fine with that.

But why not go to Green, who has a 2.70 ERA over 50 relief outings, when the Yankees were down just two runs?

If Green keeps the game 5-3, maybe the Yankees rally to win.

The Marlins have some good young arms in their bullpen, but they’re not close to being lights out and the Yankees just gave them a big scare in the seventh. Then, they scored a run to cut the lead to 5-3 before Aaron Hicks struck out for the third out with the tying runs on base.

Also, Boone admitted that that he had several other relievers besides Green available for one inning Wednesday night … Dellin Betances, Jonathan Holder and Zach Britton.

Boone passed on all of them to go with Adams, who by the way has had such a bad season in Triple-A that he’s no longer considered one of the Yankees’ very best prospects.

In 23 starts with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Adams has pitched to a 4.98 ERA. With the Yankees, he now has an 8.10 ERA counting his debut game, a three-run, five-inning start in Boston last month that was mediocre.

This decision by Boone made no sense.

Most clubs go with 12 pitchers nowadays and the Yankees have 13, which gives them eight relievers … and nine on Wednesday if you count long reliever Sonny Gray, who probably will start one of the games in Saturday’s doubleheader.

The Yankees used three relievers to work 2 1/3 innings on Wednesday night after starter Lance Lynn was pulled in the sixth when the Marlins turned a 2-0 deficit into a 5-2 lead.

Tommy Kahnle got the Yankees through the sixth, then Adams and Cole finished.

“Tonight … with us being a little thin in the ‘pen, there was more of a need for (Lynn) go go deep,” Boone said.

True, but the Yankees were still in the game until Boone went to Adams.

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