The Yankees kept their season alive Friday night, leaving the Bronx Bombers and the Astros scrambling to get to the air terminal to travel to Houston for Game 6, set to start in under 22 hours after the last out. The Yankees win likewise left the two administrators scrambling to define a pitching plan for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. Neither Astros supervisor A.J. Hinch or Yankees administrator Aaron Boone talked about a conceivable arrangement, leaving the systems agitated at the finish of the Yankees' 4-1 triumph in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium, to get the arrangement to 3-2 for Houston. It won't be Gerrit Cole, who has not lost a beginning since May 22, for the Astros. It won't be Luis Severino for the Yankees. Rather, the destiny of Game 6 will be chosen by the warm up areas. Warm up area versus warm up area. "It will be a bullpen game," said Hinch in his postgame press conference. "We'll talk about it on the plane ride home. … I'm unlikely to use Cole." Boone didn't mince his words either. "Sevy's set for Game 7," they said. "We'll simply make sense of it. … However, it will most likely be a tad of everybody." There was no movement day in the middle of Game 5 and 6. Downpour deferred Wednesday's down, making the capability of playing four successive games without an off-day. The Yankees warm up area has been saddled this postseason, tossing almost the same number of innings as the starters (35 ⅔ versus 37 ⅓) more than eight games. No starter has gone in excess of seven innings in a postseason game. In the mean time, the Astros' starters have gone at any rate seven innings in everything except two of their 10 playoff games. Anyway, who is accessible for Game 6? The Yankees may go to J.A. Happ to begin on brief rest before heading off to the warm up area. The Astros are relied upon to go with freshman Jose Urquidy. The Astros have a completely refreshed warm up area. Brad Peacock was the main reliever utilized in Game 5, and he just pitched one inning. The Yankees didn't utilize relievers Adam Ottavino or Chad Green on Friday, and Zack Britton had a low pitch tally. So it will be an all-active deck approach Saturday. This is essentially what Game 4 would have resembled in the event that it was played on Wednesday. All that is known for certain is that if there is a Game 7, Cole will go for the Astros while Severino begins for the Yankees. What does that say about the condition of the sport of baseball where it boil down to a Game 6 of the ALCS and the two groups are going with a warm up area game, as opposed to a customary starter? "I think it's both teams trying to get outs and trying to do it the best way we can," said Boone. "We've had a few – clearly a ton of folks go during this time and various individuals not accessible. "We'll just do our best to piece it together."