Aaron Boone’s Fenway Park decisions come with much bigger consequences

Sometimes the Yankees can be the stick, just as they were while taking two out of three from Houston and Toronto in consecutive series the first week of the month.

But the Yankees can also be the piñata, just as they were in The Bronx in dropping 12-2 and 11-1 games to Detroit on consecutive nights this week when the bullpen became combustible leading into Thursday’s series finale.

The Yankees had Cam Schlittler on the mound against the Tigers with José Caballero at shortstop for the second straight game, Aaron Judge in right field, Giancarlo Stanton at DH, Austin Slater in left field, Cody Bellinger in center, Ben Rice behind the plate, Paul Goldschmidt at first base after sitting for three of the previous four, and both Austin Wells and Trent Grisham on the bench.

These were choices. But more interesting will be the lineups manager Aaron Boone prescribes for the three-game series at Fenway Park against the Red Sox that starts Friday night. This is the series in which the Yankees and Boston will fight for home-field advantage in what is shaping up to be the best-of-three, first-round playoff series that would be played entirely in the higher seed’s ballpark.