Who will play the role of Kevin Millar on Tuesday afternoon? Jazz Chisholm Jr. ? Chisholm has Millar’s talkativeness. Maybe Gerrit Cole. Cole is a loud and fiery leader. He has been known to take a bullet or two for a teammate or manager.

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Swisher would definitely do that.

“Don’t let us win tonight. This is a big game. They need to win because if we win, Cole will come back in Game 5 and then Rodon will pitch Game 6 and you can take this scam thing and put it aside. Don’t let the Yankees win. This. Game.”

Tapping the glove for emphasis.

Two decades later, it will take two things for the Yankees to balance the scales of baseball justice. Two decades after becoming the first and still the only baseball team to take a 3-0 lead by seven games, this might be a good time to channel the hated Red Sox, finding something within themselves on Tuesday night. .

That’s when they’ll be down 3-0 in their 120th World Series. Their other old rival, the Dodgers, swooped in early Monday, gleefully putting them in that hole. Thanks to Freddie Freeman A late shutout thanks to a strong pitching performance from Walker Buhler and a supporting cast of relievers. 4-2 on the way to whitewash.

Now they have to do the worst thing imaginable, close their eyes, bite hard, swallow harder and… imitate the Red Sox.

And the truth is that it doesn’t have to be as painful or deeply unpleasant as saying what Millar said. More importantly, they have to behave the way the Red Sox behave, which goes both ways. First, follow the advice of every manager who has seen a team go 0-3 and try to go on a four-game winning streak instead of a four-game winning streak.

The other is more obvious.

David Ortiz got into trouble in the 2004 ALCS by striking out six batters in three games, but five of them were singles and none of them left the field. Half of those came in Game 3, a 19-8 massacre that was garbage time almost from the start. But in games 4 through 7, it was Ortiz: .316/.409/.790. That’s a 1.199 OPS. This included home runs in Games 4, 5 and 7 and nine of the most significant RBIs ever collected.

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These are the four-game numbers Aaron Judge specializes in. He rolled such dice dozens of times, throws that defied explanation and were breathtaking. At times, he comes right out of a slump in strikes to do just that.

The Yankees need this.

It’s no longer enough to say the Yankees can use it. It’s no longer possible to make an argument that the Yankees could somehow survive this Series by carrying Judge instead of the other way around. It’s no longer enough to praise Judge for making “good at-bats” like the one in the eighth inning when Los Angeles righty Ryan Brasier threw a six-pitch walk with a walk off a 1-for-2 count. .

No. It’s not good enough.

The Yankees need more. The Judge needs to warm up and, if possible, blush. Perhaps this is a sign that the Yankees are a truly flawed roster and that they are so reliant on one player even though their other superstar, Juan Soto, is doing just fine.

Do you know?

You can have this conversation when the season is over. You may have trouble with this within a week or within a few days if things don’t improve quickly. Aaron Boone thought about giving his staff a few massages during his 5.5-hour flight home, from takeoff to fastening his seat belt to making sure he had the tray table up and making sure the back of his seat was upright. locked position.

He did one of those things: He started Jose Trevino in place of rookie catcher Austin Wells, and he went 4-for-41 and 18 home runs in the postseason. He considered making a few more but was reluctant to share them. It’s entirely defensible: swapping Judge and Soto, respectively. If nothing else, just to get a new look.

“This World Series, no,” he finally decided. “This is our man (Hakim) and no matter what spot you hit, there is pressure in the Series. “He’s our guy and we’re confident he’ll get the job done.”

Yankees fans have expectedly warmed to him and will do so again Tuesday night, even though his 0-for-3 performance drops his World Series average to .083 (no hits) and his postseason average to .140. Now his season is over and the Yankees are running out of time. In a similar situation two decades ago, David Ortiz backed up Kevin Millar’s oath with his bat.

Yankees don’t need bait. Just the Judge’s stick. STAT, as they say on “ER.”