Yankees unleash full power of bullpen

NEW YORK — As a large group of media members surrounded him outside of his locker after the Yankees’ 2-1 win over the White Sox on Saturday, Andrew Miller was a bit confused.

“I feel like this is a lot of people for a hold in a game,” Miller said. “Usually relievers, we get talked to when we blow games.”

For a long time, that was the case. But Miller, along with Dellin Betances and Aroldis Chapman, is part of no ordinary trio of bullpen arms. As Yankees catcher Brian McCann joked after the win, when he first broke into the league a decade ago, facing the bullpen was a reward for knocking out the starter. Not so much anymore.

Saturday was the first time this season that Betances, Miller and Chapman appeared in the same game, as the trio combined to throw 3 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball with just one hit allowed and eight strikeouts. Betances initiated the chain, entering in relief of starter Ivan Nova with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning and striking out Melky Cabrera to end the frame. He remained in the game and struck out the side in the seventh to end his day. Miller followed Betances with two strikeouts of his own in the eighth, and …

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