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A.J. Hinch On Epic Game 5 + Should Yankees Move On From Aaron Boone After Being Eliminated By Blue Jays?

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A.J. Hinch says Game 5 was a 15-inning game where “somebody was going to win and somebody was going to lose.”

They start with the Yankees. The Blue Jays' elimination of New York gets treated as the obvious first stop, since the hosts had not done a show since that Game 4 night and the season ending still needed to be sorted out. Then comes Game 5. The 15-inning marathon sits at the center of the conversation, with the hosts and A.J. Hinch treating it like the kind of night that keeps changing shape until somebody finally blinks. Hinch is there because his team season just ended, he has long been a favorite on the show, and the hosts think he helped manage one of the best games of the year even though his club lost it. The pressure never really eased up. Hinch says that when you are inside a game like that, you are not admiring it, you are going inning by inning, trying to scratch out a run while also knowing the season can end on the next pitch. The free runner mattered. He draws a clear line between starting extra innings with a runner at second and having to manufacture your own rally, because that rule changes how every plate appearance feels. The missed chances stick. Hinch keeps coming back to second and third with one out, bases loaded without a run, and the way those spots turned the game into a slow grind of regret on both sides. The bullpen got stretched. The show digs into how the starters were down there and pitching, with Luis Castillo, Jack Flaherty, and Troy Melton all part of the all hands on deck mess. That is playoff baseball. Hinch makes the point that everybody says all hands on deck, but a game like this shows how different that phrase looks when starters are in relief. The game still stands out. Even while describing the gut wrenching parts, Hinch can step back and appreciate it as a baseball person, because games like that do end up living forever. They widen the lens. The rest of the conversation moves through Tarek Skubal, the AL playoffs, and other baseball questions before the show signs off.

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A postseason baseball conversation that opens with the Yankees' elimination and settles into a detailed look at A.J. Hinch's 15-inning Game 5.

Joel Sherman and John Heyman start with the Yankees' elimination by the Blue Jays in the division series, then move into A.J. Hinch, where the episode finds its center.

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