No relief from relievers

FRIDAY NIGHT Red Sox manager John Farrell and Joe Girardi did it again. They made a short story long — four hours, nine minutes — by playing duck, duck, goose with their bullpens. Among the 10 — 10! — relievers used, eight were ineffective.

So what makes both career baseball men think that, starting in the sixth or seventh inning, they can summon three or four oneinning-each relievers and all three or four will be effective?

And with closer Aroldis Chapman unreliable, only

now will Girardi, or at least on Sunday, use his bullpen based on in-game circumstances as opposed to predesignated innings. Radical! Again, this past Saturday, only one 1:20, Chicago time, MLB game was scheduled — Jays-Cubs. The rest were either lateafternoon starts for FOX regionals or night games.

While once impossible to even consider — especially as a matter of how so many of us first became then remained baseball fans — MLB now schedules as many 8:10 Sunday night starts as Saturday 1 p.m. starts. Can’t shame the shameless.

Good foresight from YES’ truck, Saturday. After Dellin Betances closed out the win against Boston, we soon saw a recording of Aroldis Chapman in the dugout during the final out. Chapman rose and slapped his hands in approval. If all the kids who arrived early in the lower deck at Citi Field didn’t walk away with Curtis Granderson’s autograph, it wasn’t because Granderson turned them down. Talk about things that don’t show up in box scores, there’s no abbreviation or designation for mensch.

A challenge to ESPN tough-talk guy Dan Le Batard: Show the video of the Twins’ Byron Buxton’s inside-the-park home run, Saturday, his second of the season. Buxton, who is black, ran hard the entire way, thus Le Batard can mock him for “playing the white way.”

Yankees radio now includes commercial sponsorship of games’ announced attendance. Now to find someone to sponsor the comma.