CLEVELAND — It didn’t take 93 games into the season to understand Aaron Boone and Joe Girardi don’t share the same personality gene. Publicly, Boone keeps a cool front even when presented with some of the dumbest questions ever asked. Girardi wasn’t as patient, often giving terse answers to questions he didn’t like.

It doesn’t make Boone a better manager than Girardi, who won a World Series title in his second year at the helm of the Yankees, 910 regular season games in 10 years and wasn’t asked back after taking the Yankees to Game 7 of last year’s ALCS against the Astros, which they lost.

And in those 10 years it’s very difficult to remember a time when Girardi admitted to second-guessing a decision he made, they way Boone did following Friday night’s 6-5 loss to the Indians at Progressive Field.

With Aaron Judge on first base, one out, the Yankees trailing, 6-4 in the eighth inning, and Aaron Hicks at the plate against Neil Ramirez, Boone put Judge in motion with the count full. Hicks struck out and Judge was caught stealing after a review overturned an original safe call, ending the inning.

When Giancarlo Stanton led off the ninth with a homer off closer Cody Allen, the second-guessers poured out of the heavens. Why run with Stanton looming on deck? Look what happened in the next inning — though that thinking is illogical.

Those second-guessers, some no doubt who bet on the Yankees, had company: Boone.

“Second-guess it a little bit, but I also felt the matchup, slow to the plate and betting on a pitch in the zone being put in play. But certainly something I second-guess,’’ Boone said after the tough loss, in which Domingo German had dumped the Yankees into an early 4-0 ditch from which they couldn’t recover.

Does Boone admitting second-guessing himself — and ultimately it’s his call — help make him a better manager? No. But it sends a message to the players that he is accountable for a move that came within inches of putting the potential tying run at the plate.

Judge had no issue with the strategy, even if it meant Indians manager Terry Francona might have intentionally walked Stanton to pitch to Greg Bird, though that would have put the potential tying run on base.

“It would have been a huge bag if we got in there,’’ Judge said. “We didn’t get it done, especially after Stanton comes up the next inning and hits a home run. It’s tough. But those are gambles, and you have to take those gambles. Took a risk and I was out.’’

The argument that Boone was wrong running Judge because Stanton homered in the ninth is asinine and uttered without a morsel of baseball knowledge. Do you think Ramirez would have pitched Stanton the same way, with a runner on second and a two-run lead, as Allen did leading off the ninth with a two-run lead? Or would Francona have called for Allen with two outs in the eighth to face Stanton? Would Allen then have pitched Stanton the same way with a two-run lead in the eighth as he did leading off the ninth? Of course not.

Bird singled off Allen following Stanton’s homer, but Miguel Andujar banged into a 6-4-3 double play to take the air out of the inning. Neil Walker walked, but pinch-hitter Didi Gregorius ended the game by popping up the first pitch.

Boone admitting he second-guessed himself doesn’t mean he is a better manager 93 games into the gig than the guy he replaced, but it’s an open window into Boone’s mind, a window Girardi rarely opened publicly.