Oct 28, 2009 3:14 PM EST

Yankees manager Joe Girardi plans to stick with reliever Phil Hughes as his eighth inning man.

"Phil Hughes has been our eighth-inning guy. We expect him to be our eighth-inning guy," Girardi told New York Post. "Obviously during the course of a series, sometimes you make adjustments, but we expect him to be our eighth-inning guy, and we'll make adjustments as we see needed."

Via New York Post