Out of curiosity, how many runs were the Yankees going to score in the 12th inning?

And who was going to close the game? Robertson? Aceves? You're 100% sure that strategy would have worked?

At least change the tone of the discussion. The Yankees might have won if Robertson had stayed in the game. There's really no reason to think they would have won.

Maybe Pettitte was supposed to throw 10 innings and 180 pitches, and then Rivera could have pitched the last 2 innings. After the Yankees scored 4 or 5 runs in the 12th.

I also wonder what Lupica would be saying if Robertson had given up a HR to Kendrick.

"Joe! Why didn't you use Aceves?"