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Sports Illustrated
By Nick Selbe The mustachioed lefthander has developed into a frontline starter for a loaded Yankees pitching staff. View the original article to see embedded media. Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. With the game deadlocked in a scoreless tie after seven innings, Yankees manager Aaron Boone was put in a tight spot: should he let his locked-in starting pitcher, Nestor Cortes Jr., go back out to the mound despite a climbing pitch count? Or go to the bullpen to spare h…