In the regular season that inning is horrendous but in the World Series it’s just so inexcusable it’s crazy. Stanton and Soto hard carried that team to the World Series. Horrific performances from everyone else
I've watched almost every Yankee game this season and I can safely say it's hardly a surprise to me. Our infield defense was an issue in May when the season started. We don't have a manager that can actually manage and hold players accountable. The one guy Boone did that with actually turned into one of our best playoff performers. People like
yeah stanton and soto have got to be fuming beyond what words can explain. I mean soto looks like he's ready to be a free agent and sign to whoever gives him good offers, so he definitely seems like he's finally had enough of the yankees shit lol
@@gabescoffield One small man living on small datasets. He went off in the NLCS. He was a great RBI batter in the NLDS. He was perfectly average in the WS, but his job was done. The team already got there.
@ uh who cares? what he will be remembered by is all those strike outs in the world series the biggest stage possible and he looked like a deer in the headlights he got out shined by Freddie Freeman 😆 😆 😝 that’s pitiful
Because of history of an iconic traditionally winning team. They can’t rest on that anymore. Yankees are over the hill, over rated, no longer the great powerhouse. Fans delusional.
Thank you, John Henry, for reminding us that it doesn't matter how many good players you have, you still have only one chance in 30 of winning the World Series. That's sarcasm, but what, for all intents and purposes, he did say.
@@mikemccormick8115 Yea i'm good on watching the Yankees, they turned into the baseball version of the Chargers where no matter how good they do in the regular season or look early in the playoffs you know they are going to blow it when the stakes get at their highest.
I loved how the announcers were non-stop gushing over the pitcher and couldn't stop talking about how good he is, and then he gives up on covering first base...🤷🤦♂️
Gerrit Cole is one of the best pitchers in baseball lol if Aaron judge just catches a relatively easy ball then the inning would have been over with Cole’s 2 strikeouts
I think you’re underselling just how terrible the fifth inning was. Never mind the worst inning we’ve seen in the World Series - this was the worst inning of professional baseball I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m a lifelong Yankee fan, and I was honestly glad our 6-5 lead didn’t hold. We didn’t deserve to win that game, or have a shot at trying to win the series, not after that inning. Watching the Dodgers celebrate at the stadium after losing a game in which we didn’t get outplayed but rather played ourselves was a fitting end to a season in which our propensity for stupid fucking errors ultimately outperformed our prodigious talent.
I admire your integrity. I'm a lifelong Astros fan who thinks the 2017 World Series championship should be declared vacated. I suppose it's like this: no one has earned the right to be as disgusted with you as your parents have.
It was the 3rd inning when I was buying tickets to Game 6, ready to see them again in LA (after going to G1). Man, was the end of last night tense! Instead, we booked a hotel for tonight to go down early and watch the parade tomorrow
Eloquently put. I'm not fan of neither teams but I was totally befuddled by what happened to the Yankees defense on the fifth. That inning should of been over 3 outs ago. It's as though all of the bad luck and karma just piled up for Yankees in that inning.
I'm not so sure. Mookie hit that ball off the end of the bat and it had a ton of sidespin on it. It bounced at first near the plate right on the line, and it looked like it was going to come straight to the bag, but it didn't. It went left, away from the line. This fooled Rizzo. He ran toward the bag to field the ball, but overran where the ball ended up, he caught the ball to his right instead of in front of him. This killed his momentum, and made him unable to get to the bag before the speedy Mookie. Now this is just something that happens in baseball, but this is why Cole MUST cover first on any ball that goes to his left, because you can't predict if the 1st baseman might not be able to field the ball in time. If Cole covers first like he was supposed to, Mookie is probably out.
The crazy thing is up until Betts, Cole had only allowed 1 harmless hit. Even once the bases were loaded he struck out the next 2 including the GOAT Ohtani. Had he covered first people would be talking about how Cole nutted up and bailed his teammates out for years to come. Instead, he got lazy and left them out to dry lol.
I wasn't impressive with Cole even in game 1. Dodgers had a couple hits that almost homeruns, slightly short. And Dodgers have players in scoring position 3 or 4 times but failed or else the game wouldn't have been close.
@@xtlm Even "GOATS" have bad series. Babe Ruth was once caught stealing with his team down multiple runs to end a WS. It's baseball, where hitters fail more than not and all of them are human, prone to make a mistake or have a bad week.
I look at that play and against it the Buckner fielding catastrophe against the Mets in 1986 seems to me to be an understandable mistake. It's just astonishing to see Cole standing there. Hadn't he learned that the pitcher must cover first before he got to middle school?
@@SK-lt1so baseball is so brutal for this, how a player can do everything right for 7 months, but falter one time in October and unravel the entire season. It's a beautiful game for the same reason, honestly.
I believe the previous errors had taken Cole out of his game. That's hard to believe for a Cy Young Award winning pitcher in an elimination game of the World Series but that's all I can come up with. Every pitcher from Little League on knows to cover first on a ground ball to the right. And his explanation after the game just made it worse.
Great stat. You can clearly see him take his eye off the ball early to check the runner and see if he could get a double play. Very akin to a receiver taking his eye off the pass early to plan a football move.
The Yankees had flipped the momentum of the series completely and were steaming towards an unprecedented comeback. Then all the momentum was lost in this one inning. After slumping all playoffs, Judge had finally snapped out of his slump. The Yankees offense was back on track. Their ace Cole was pitching a gem. After a stellar catch in center, Judge muffed a routine fly. Is that the worst error in a World Series since Buckner?
Well not as bad as Billy Buckner. Buckner was pathetic, a real crippled man who couldn’t bend over far enough to reach the ball as it went through his legs. Judge on the other hand just took his eyes off the ball in that split second before it went into the glove. Remember young lads, no peeking or you too may go down in baseball history as a loser like Aron Judge.
I don't think the Yankees would come back. They won Game 4 because Roberts put 3rd string pitchers out there. That would not have happened 3 games in a row.
@@metal4ever516 They weren't coming back but they could've forced a Game 6 and gone down swinging. Instead they went out on one of the biggest chokes in baseball history. .....I was DELIGHTED. #RedSoxNation
Far worse. Cam is competing against 300 pound guys who will bite and kick you for the ball. Cole just had to run to the base and touch it with his foot.
This inning reminded me of the infamous 7th inning between the Rangers and the Blue Jays in 2015 ALDS. The Rangers just spit the bit, and essentially had to get six outs because they blew three easy ones.
New York will never be happy till all their major profession sports teams (baseball, basketball, hocky, and football) win the world championship in the same year! The fact that New York has two teams in each sport insures at least one won't be the champion never bothers a true New York fan.
As a Yankees fan, while this was horrific to watch, it doesn't matter really- the point was that the Yankees' fundamentals and mindset were just not what they needed to be. It could have happened slowly over the rest of the series, and that would have been preferable to watch, but the result would have been the same. The upside is that hopefully this experience can be a tough lesson for them. I think these are the kinds of experiences that turn unprepared noobs into seasoned and hard players that know and do what it takes to win.
The only other inning like this was the Bautista bat-flip inning. 2015 ALDS Game 5, 7th inning Texas vs Toronto. Texas made 3 straight errors to setup the Bautista at bat. Texas gave up 4 runs when it should have been 0.
It sure as hell will...and couldn't have happened to a better team and city. Sure made up for that slob of a fan who tried to rip the ball out of Bett's glove in the previous game.
LA, Boston and NYC sports fans don’t know how good they have it. I’ve been alive for 32 years and I’ve seen my favorite teams in every major sport win two championships combined. I’ve seen those teams lose major championships than I’ve seen them win.
I know parents of Patriots fans here in New England who struggled to convince their kids that this wasn’t normal. Kids were graduating high school having seen their team in the Super Bowl 10 times. Plus three WS victories and a basketball and hockey championships to boot. That’s got to warp your expectations for life.
I’m a graduate of the University of Kansas and live in the KC Metro area. In the last 16 years, going back to 2008, we’ve seen our major sports teams (Jayhawks, Royals, and Chiefs) win 6 major championships since 2008, Jayhawks 2 (2008, 2022), Royals 1 (2015), and Chiefs 3 (2019, 2022, 2023) with 10 championship appearances in 16 years (Jayhawks 4, Royals 2, Chiefs 4). If you would have told anyone in KC in the middle 2000s that the KC area would see 10 championship appearances with 6 championship wins from 2008 to now, they would have tried to get you committed for insanity. And as of right now, the Chiefs and Jayhawks are early favorites to win it all. In KC, such things just didn’t happen it seemed. This isn’t quite Boston-level success, but we are inching closer. It’s been a fun ride so far.
That this happens to the Yankees is hardly a surprise if you've watched every game and listened to the drivel that is an Aaron Boone interview like I have. The poor fielding was an issue in May. The bad baserunning and running into outs was an issue in May. How is it that after 180+ games you can see no improvement in any of those areas? One word coaching. It's almost poetic that this series featured everything that makes Boone an absolutely horrible choice as manager of this ballclub. Terrible pitching decision in game 1 - check. Having your third base coach send your slowest player Stanton on a single straight at the fielder - Check. Terrible infield defense - Check. The closer situation worked out but just barely because Boone waited till Holmes was going to break the blown saves record before making what was the obvious choice since the All-Star break. It's soooo obvious that this manager cannot hold players or even his other coaching staff accountable because he is everybody's friend. I've said it before, and I'll say it again we never win with Boone. Only exception is if we face nothing but teams on the level of Clevland or KC which will never happen. Any half decent team a la the Astros of the past and the Dodgers here spanks this team.
Well, to be fair, these are all veterans. If they have these issues, it's not new and it's not going away. The Yankees didn't have good fielding teams for most of the years when they were winning championships in the late 90's and early 00's, either, but it was usually the other teams making the critical baserunning error or something like that which put them over the top...if not fan interference going their way ; ) Different times.
1:20 Be careful, having seen Rizzo a lot since he joined the Yankees, I have to point out that he always waits for the pitcher and never takes it to 1st himself. Therefore, even if the hop had been true, he wouldn't have beaten Mookie to the bag.
Judge's muff is a perfect illustration of outfielders nonchalantly making stupid show off, one handed catches, something you'd NEVER see as recently as a few years ago. Even when I played little league ball years ago, the coach/mgrs always made sure to let us know to CATCH THE BALL WITH TWO HANDS! For a "championship team", especially the "mighty" NY Yankees they truly looked like a bunch of little leaguers in that 5th inning and the freaking World Series no less! And good for Mookie Betts on his hustle down the line...he could smell the goof unfolding as he went.
These days too many players don't concentrate on fundimentals and put more effort into showing off than showing up. The Chicago Bears did the same thing against Washington - clowning around before the Hail Mary and then giving up the winning score.
If I caught the ball one handed in little league I would have to run a lap around the field and if I dropped it using 1 hand I would have to run 5 laps
There’s no excuse for Judge and Cole but I’ll give Volpe/Chisholm some slack although it is still an error. The placement of the runner makes the play fairly difficult and far from routine
I don't think Judge's error was a lack of hustle. If anything, he was trying to do too much. He looks over at the runner while the ball is still coming down, seeing if he has a double play chance.
He doesn't have CF range, despite the play earlier in the game. He's a RF, but the Yanks have sacrificed defense to try and get an extra bat out there. It didn't work out this time.
What's hilarious is the best professional sports team in NYC is NOT the Yanks, Mets, jets, Giants, Knicks or Rangers but the female basketball team. Let that sink in for a minuteI or two.
@@kaylemain2006 I think the answer is, the relief of having gotten the groundout overcame him for a moment. That, or he misread Rizzo and/or the ball. Of course he still should have run, but after that inning, I think he just momentarily hoped/thought Rizzo had it and it was over, and had a brain fart.
Unless ALL THREE errors happened in the SAME INNING, the Dodgers don't tie the score and probably lose. (Yeah, they'd probably win in one of the final two games, but still.)
Have been watching baseball since the mid 70's and have never witnessed what appeared to be zero effort on three plays in the same inning, in the biggest game of the year. I'd almost say it looked like they purposefully blew it.
No, we still should have won that game; Stanton got the Sac Fly, which gave the Yankees back the lead. Khanle loaded the bases with no outs, which allowed LAD to win the World Series. That being said, we should be leading 3-2 right now.
Did Volpe have a play at first? Given where he was I'll assume 2nd was out of the question, but trying to cut down the lead runner in a 5-0 game may have been a mistake too.
Despite the nice play by Judge earlier in the game, you can see on the fly ball double that lands on the warning track that he doesn't really have CF range. He's got a great arm, but belongs in right.
People who have never played baseball have no idea that the hardest ball to catch for a centerfielder is a ball hit directly at you. At the MLB level he still should have caught it but I’m just saying it’s not as easy as a catch as some people think. Cole not covering first base was worse and what really cost them.
Good try but Judge took his eyes off the ball; obvious from the replay. And the ball was descending- was not that high. Judge was already throwing the ball infield in his mind. Lapse in fundamentals. But then again, no one in baseball can bunt. Fundamentals are so 20th century. You’re right- Cole’s was worse.
@@Jasper7182009 I have played this game for nearly 2 decades and a ball hit straight at a centerfielder is a hard ball to catch already even if he took his eyes off the ball it’s still a hard catch cause it’s hard to judge what the balls going to do. He should have caught it because he’s a professional I’m just saying everyone complaining over his drop has no idea how hard of a catch that is to make.
I think what people are forgetting is that.... no team has ever came back from 3-0 in the ws. Ya they blew it but it wasnt what cost them the series. Being down 3-0 is a huge hole to overcome. They werent gunna win it anyway.
I'm glad. The Yankees thought they were hot shit. It turned out they played a classy Dodgers team. The Yankees went from hot shit to just shit. The Dodgers dominated throughout the season. Taking charge of their division in the beginning and never looking back. They were destined to win the World Series. Congratulations to the Dodgers.
So a pitcher who is watching his captain fail to squeeze a lazy liner and his shortstop make a bad throwing error while navigating the best lineup in baseball forgets to run to first base because his defense needs him to get 5 outs to get through one inning. Somehow that's worse that a guy scratching his ass in center field with nothing to do but catch balls failing to make a play a little leaguer can easily make. A pitcher is facing 100x more pressure in that situation. Firstly, you are thinking about how you feel about your stuff. Which pitches you have command of. How is the movement on your cutter or dip on your curveball. Then you are thinking about the umpire and his strike zone and how you want to navigate that. Then you are thinking about each hitter and their splits against each pitch you throw, the zones they are good hitters in etc. The only thing Judge would have had to be thinking about is opening and closing his glove on the ball. All three errors were bad but Judge's was the one that was the most inexcusable especially because it was first.
Cole honestly shouldn't have been pitching in the fifth. He was doing great before that and then clearly was getting gassed, but they didn't sub him out. Even the commentators said they couldn't believe how long they were leaving him in.
No way. Only one baserunner had been his fault up to then. He had only thrown like 60 pitches. After he was taken out too early in Game 1, everyone was saying how the move has to be to leave him in. Since that inning was 90% not his fault, taking him out would have been crazy. I mean, he did the job pitching wise- two huge K's and a weak ground ball. And he did great until 2 outs in the 7th. He just had a fielding brain fart.
Judge looked confused at the plate throughout the playoffs. He does this every year, we should not be surprised anymore. The error in center field is just the same mental lapse, perhaps he just doesn't have the competitive fire in him to win. The Volpe throwing error, he was clearly throwing for a tag out not a force out, that is his mental error. I can't explain the Cole mental lapse, he must have been pissed at the defense at that point, you would think he would show them how to do it. The Dodgers seemed much more mentally into the game than the Yanks. I would look to Boone to see why that was the case.
If he wasn’t already Aaron Judge is officially the most hated player Giants history. Not only did he fake like he had interest just to sign back with the Yankees but he also gifted their most hated rival a championship😭
50+ year Yankee fan and that was bad! Should be heading into game 6 with Yanks up 3 games to 2 but their slopy play gave it away! How do you give a team 3 extra outs in an inning in the World Series? There was signs of this all year long and it needs to get fixed!
I think thhe Braves had a game like this in a post season series during their 90s run as NL champs most years. I cant quite recall the opponent but they had a string of mishaps in an inning against the Marlins i think it was.
I've seen sloppier. I have 13 or so at the time and the rain was literally blinding, so no one could see the runners or the ball once hit. But yeah, nothing beyond that level of Little League.
Yankees threw the game because of bad fundamentals. Routine plays that should be automatic at that level. Errors are so impactful in the WS. Dodgers just had to play basic baseball to beat NY.
It wasn't Game 5 that killed the Yankees chances at a ring, it was Gleyber Torres' lazy brain fart on a simple relay throw that allowed Ohtani to take third in Game 1 that ended up tying the game and then watching Freeman hit a GS in the 10th inning to steal Game 1. The Yankees should have won Game 1 and this would have been a totally different Series. Instead they went down 0-3 and their dreams of a ring were virtually crushed at that point.
Almost certainly the sloppiest half-inning in WS history. But don't forget Game 6 of the 2011 WS (ultimately, the David Freese game) was sloppy AF for most of that contest before the Cardinals' surge.
The pop up was bad, that’s your captain choking live. Pause Cole not running to the base is a baseball omen. Volpe just a kid but either way this team sold in the 5th and their manager sold game 1
I feel like instead of watching wildcard series games, the Yankees were just fucking off. Because if they watched, that's exactly how the Mets beat the Brewers. Blow plays, get beat.
Considering the number of teams in baseball, trying to say not winning a world series since 1988 or for 15 years is kind of silly. It'd be ideal if they went about 30 years between wins, really.
I understand your point, but for the most iconic and successful sports franchise in American sports history with 27 championships in the sport, 15 years is a long, long time for the Yankees. It’s extremely hard to win it all in any sport, just ask the Cleveland Guardians, the Chicago Cubs, the Buffalo Bills, the Minnesota Vikings, or the Kansas City Chiefs. It took the Cubs over 100 years to finally win the World Series again (2016). It took my KC Chiefs 50 years to get back to the Super Bowl, 1969-2019. Now we’ve won 3 Super Bowls in the last 5 years with 4 appearances in that 5 year period. Everyone in KC is still pinching themselves to see if this all really happened because it’s hard just to get to the championship much less win it.
They played sloppy defense the whole series. I lost count how many times they missed the cutoff man on hits to the outfield. Ball ending up bouncing around in the infield. Giving up a 5-0 lead shows they didn't deserve to go further. Lifetime Yankees fan.
