Who\u2019s going to play the part of Kevin Millar on Tuesday afternoon? Jazz Chisholm Jr.? Chisholm has Millar\u2019s chattiness. Maybe it\u2019ll be Gerrit Cole. Cole is a loud and ardent leader. He\u2019s been known to take a bullet or two for a teammate or a manager.<\/p>\n
Can the Yankees activate Nick Swisher for a day?<\/p>\n
Swisher would definitely do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t let us win tonight. This is a big game. They\u2019ve got to win because if we win, we\u2019ve got Cole coming back in Game 5 and then Rodon will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don\u2019t let the Yanks \u2026 Win. This. Game.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Pounding the glove for emphasis on the last three syllables.<\/p>\n Twenty years later, it\u2019ll take two things for the Yankees to be able to balance the scales of baseball justice. Twenty years after becoming the first \u2014 and still only \u2014 baseball team to squander a 3-0 lead in a best-of-seven, this would be a good time to channel those detested Red Sox and find something inside themselves starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when they will report to work down 3-0 in this, the 120th World Series. Their other ancient rivals, the Dodgers, merrily put them in that hole Monday by pouncing early thanks to Freddie Freeman and closing late thanks to a stout pitching performance from Walker Buhler and an ensemble of relievers on the way to a 4-2 win.<\/p>\n Now, they need to do the worst thing imaginable: close their eyes, bite down hard, swallow harder and \u2026 emulate the Red Sox.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to pull some inspiration from somewhere,\u201d Anthony Rizzo said. \u201cIt\u2019s happened before.\u201d<\/p>\n The kind of confidence Millar and his mates had would be useful, sure. More important, the Yankees have to act as the Red Sox acted, which is a two-fold thing. First, honor the pledge of every manager who ever saw a team fall into an 0-3 hole, one that Aaron Boone reliably unleashed Monday:<\/p>\n