Jack Flaherty (28, RHP, 13-7, 3.17) vs. Gerrit Cole (#45, 33, RHP, 8-5, 3.41)
DODGERS
DH S. Ohtani L
RF Mookie Betts R
1B F. Freeman L
LF T. Hernandez R
3B Max Muncy L
CF E. Hernandez R
SS Tommy Edman S
C Will Smith R
2B Gavin Lux L
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
3B J. Chisholm L
DH G. Stanton R
1B A. Rizzo L
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
LF Alex Verdugo L
They won’t win tonight, but if they do, that would be pretty fucking hilarious…
So we’re only 2 games behind.
What inning will Boone do something stupid? I’ll say the 7th. Maybe taking Cole with two outs and no one on.
Every inning?
Still has jazz in front of Stanton, so immediately
Think about the fact that the Dodgers were up 2-1 with a chance to win the series, and Roberts decided to use the back of his bullpen instead of his top guys. That was dumb.
Lots of managers do dumb things from time to time.
That’s not what we have with the incomparable Boone.
Dodgers fans have been complaining about Roberts for years too
In know.
But be serious. I’m sure he’s a lousy manager.
But – no hyperbole – baseball has never seen anything like Aaron Boone.
Or even when it was 6-4, he then decided to just empty out his bullpen which, at the very least, allowed Boone to sit Weaver in the ninth. Roberts is just not a good manager EITHER (not as bad as Boone, but he is bad, too).
I am about to start a roll call in my living room. In Cole we trust!
Cole looks locked in.
Acceptable 1st 1/2 inning
5 pitches? Why not 4 pitches?!
????
The meth is kicking in
YES!
Finally
Judge!
Play until you finally come out of it. He could hardly have taken any longer.
Let’s hope he locks in now.
This is an above average inning.
Who are those striped men?
Grind them down
Wow. One of his crazy swings actually connected.
That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
DO NOT GIVE THIS RIGHT BACK!
Damn. Could have missed that.
Walk, home run, home run, hard hit out, Rizzo.
That was not a good take. It was just a missed strike call.
Thinking exactly the same thing.
Cole.
Now get more. Don’t stop.
Cole!
Those were two really fucking good innings.
Yes. Not enough yet. Decent beginning, keep it going.
Volpe’d been awful for so long.
But always been a fan and this is SO cool to see!
Late to the party but … Jidge.
Crazy. How much on the corner can you be?
YES!
THE KILLER V’s!
Non-groundball!
I was thinking – one of the highest-hit ground balls I can remember.
Forget about resigning Soto, all he does is walk, Verdugo is the future.
This would have been better not going into an off day, but they can still start to expose the pen.
WS Col. Ruppert special would be nice.
Not sure what you mean by this (yes, of course I know who he was)
When the Yankees put up eight runs in the first and slowly pull away.
Of course!
What’s with Gleyber suddenly?
This announcing is miserable
These guys have zero chemistry and neither one of them has said anything remotely insightful since the series began
They also never stop talking
posted without seeing yours, Clay!
Didn’t work out, but that’s how you bust it to first base.
Good Chisholm.
Yeah, you gotta love his speed and his hustle.
Coulda put the game away Jazz
Can’t complain, but why walk THAT guy, before THIS guy?
I mean, you can’t think he couldn’t throw a strike tonight!
Seriously, how do you walk Lux?!
Just throw it down the fucking middle.
Shohei shouldn’t be playing
Yes, he should.
As they note, a hurt Ohtani is still probably better than, like, Miguel Rojas or whoever would be playing.
What is it about walking the 9 hitter to get to ohtani?
Right?!
ABSOLUTELY
NON
STOPPARLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stanton!
Stanton!
Nice catch.
If they’d all make like Big G and just hit dingers every AB, they’d be fine.
So Stanton can crush the best pitchers in the game on the biggest stage, but he can’t come close to Joe Neverwas in August.
Why do they keep saying post season records when World Series record is a relevant.
It’s super duper dumb. I love Bernie and Jeter, but the idea of them being “postseason home run leaders” when they’re barely past Mantle, who did it only in the World Series, is just silly.
Thank GOD they had Jazz up with the bases loaded and not Stanton.
So wait – to set an avatar picture I have to register on ANOTHER site, for another service? ?!
Nice play
JIDGE!
He’s a really good outfielder who’s just been very, very careful after that crappy wall in LA.
I’m late, I was replacing the evaporator fan motor in my refrigerator.
Judge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, if I have to register somewhere else to set an avatar here, screw’em.
Gravatar loves you.
What the hell is it and why can’t the site just take an Fing picture?
Just cooperate, you’ll feel better.
See, they can walk the 9 hitter, too.
So sure on TV that was going out.
Same
Vortex fail
Judge nearly got that one.
He destroyed that ball. Just way more up than out.
That half inning was not as much fun. They’re leaving a lot of guys on base.
So close to scoring more.
Keep them down, keep them down, keep them down and get a least a couple more for us.
Judge just missed another.
Sigh.
Good to know some things never change.
Judge just missed that too
Don’t worry, Cole always responds well when his fielders fuck him over.
C’mon, Cole.
What the FUCK, Volpe?!
What the fuck are they doing?
Self destruction inc.
It’s just like the Baltimore game. They can’t handle success, so start making the dumbest plays possible.
FFS! I should go back to working on my refrigerator.
Yeah, went to the bathroom, for God’s sake, and came back to this mess.
Dumb assery is their middle name. Just, just, Aaargh!
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE!
You can’t possibly be serious.
What. The. Fuck.
Just drill Freeman and move on.
Just, just, Aaargh!
Cole says I’m here to throw, you do the rest.
Part of that was on Cole, but Rizzo’s been so slow to move. He had to be moving to the base at once, could have dived, he could have done it.
Yeah, both fucked that up.
Rizzo is done.
Elimination game and they pull this, all in one inning.
Charge Cole with an error.
Stupid, pathetic defense.
This is what you get for hoping.
This is what I get for finishing working on my refrigerator so soon.
Un
be
lievable.
Finally, a game when they looked like a good team.
Couldn’t let that happen, could they?
So bad. So very, very bad.
Mind-numbing.
I said a few more runs, and keep them down.
Then I had to go to the bathroom.
Sorry, guys.
So unnnecessary. How? Why?
Fuck.
Whatever
Total implosion, and that is your Boone team.
This team deserves to lose
I keep thinking that. It’s so crazy that they’re even here.
They have talent, but they play so f*ing badly.
How can a major league club not train its players better?
I mean, I know they fucked him, but can Cole EVER just deal with awful luck?
So true.
Cole DID deal with it. They loaded the bases on two fucked-up errors, and he struck out the Ohtani and got a ground ball and should have been out of the inning twenty-seven times.
He didn’t cover first, and then he allowed back to back rbi hits.
The worst inning in Yankee post season history. Not even close.
If you keep grinding out at-bats? That’s how Cole was at 11 pitches/inning in this inning, and then 3 crazy errors in one inning?
What does that have to do with the other team’s at bats?
Yeah a lot of credit to a lot of unearned runs
Train wreck in slow motion.
Two
Errors yeah but there were two outs and Cole didn’t cover first and then collapsed.
It’s on Judge, Volpe, Cole and Cole.
The Yankees would have made history had they won this game, so they said we want no part of that.
Well I’m headed to bed. Say good night, Gracie
Good night Gracie.
SCORE RIGHT NOW.
Right now. Immediately.
YES
Wow.
How can there not be three errors that inning?
I don’t care who you call the third one on, but it was NOT a hit, it was 100% an error.
The error rule doesn’t allow the assumption of an out. It’s kinda silly.
NO MORE TRYING TO BEAT FREEMAN INSIDE. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. STOP.
THE WORST INNING IN YANKEE POST SEASON HISTORY.
Told ya someone gonna roll a yahtzee. It was dem bums.
That was almost precisely the Baltimore game. Just insanity.
Yeah, we’ve seen this act before.
Remind me what happened in Baltimore and it wasn’t a post season game so it’s not remotely the same.
Also, will they please stop saying how hurt Freeman is?
They are NEVER dropping that. They are flogging the lie no matter what.
I was thinking if we get to 7-0, pull Cole early so he can go a few innings Saturday.
Giving Cole time is already good.
More people coming to the plate is good.
Make something happen. Get runs NOW.
Yes, have them look at Wells, good.
Gave away game 1, Soto, Gleyber (Rizzo) and Boone.
Absolutely. We can say what we want about Boone, but he didn’t lose game 1.
He pulled Cole with 88 pitches
Using Nestor over Hill and/or pulling Cole.
RISP Fail writ large.
Close, but back to lots o’ men on base and no runners crossing the plate.
Dammit, Janet!
There have been lots of blunders in World Series history but never so many, so bad. In 2004 they never had an inning like that.
Who’s going to win this game, the Yankee offense or the Yankee defense?
Who’s going to lose it is the better question. Their RISP Fail hitting, or inept fielding?
Thought they were going to drop that, too.
I’m truly more deflated by this than the grand slam. That was just a good hitter getting a big hit. That happens. This does not happen.
Except that they could still get away with this. They DIDN’T get away with THAT.
Far worse. My only co plaint is it should’ve been Hill.
why not both?
They were both bad, but this one was so much more deflating. It’s like I got punched in the gut.
i hear you. it’s a very frustrating team.
They are 1 for 6 with RISP. It’s not bad luck. It’s something worse.
That really was a strike to Judge.
Just a footnote to the Yankees Hindenburg but 1-6 RISP, Dodgers 3/8.
They had more RISP? That’s incredible. Well, because of the errors, I guess.
They run the bases stupid, they field stupid, but none of it is on Boone.
Judge walked in an at bat in which he was struck out twice.
Crazy bad umpiring. By which I mean normal umpiring.
Why would Chisholm swing at THAT?
That bunt attempt was crazy.
Chisholm!
Jazz flirting with disaster.
Stanton… I didn’t know he COULD hit a fly ball without hitting it out.
But – awesome, they have taken the lead again. But it’s not enough.
A lot of criticism on an extra base that jazz had pretty safely.
Completely agree.
Loved it.
WP?
They’re not pinch running for Rizzo, are they?
That second strike was an amazing pitch.
I think they were right, it was a mistake pitch. Not what he planned.
I wouldn’t mind jazz stealing here.
right handed hitter. breaking balls. make them make a play.
two pitches too late.
1-8 the Yankee way
Freeman hasn’t had his daily home run yet, so this is a scary as fuck inning.
I’m not impressed.
Betts is Cole’s last batter right?
I guess not.
I trust Cole more than Boone. He can pitch as much as he wants.
Did the announcers just tell us Freeman is juicing?
Are they bringing in fucking Holmes?!
Amazing game by Cole.
108 pitches today. 88 Friday. Go figure.
Without the disaster inning, definitely feels like Cole could have had a CG
Just a great performance and probably the best he’s looked all year.
How much enamel will he grind off his teeth talking about how it’s not the team’s fault and all?
FFS, Holmes.
LOL
Fucking Holmes
Holmes has zero feel
That’s enough. Pull him now.
I think holmes’ [body part] might be injured. Please go check it out!
Please, please get lucky, Holmes!
That’s what I’m talking about!
(Actually, it was a really nice pitch.)
https://i.imgflip.com/98hobm.jpg
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I need an off day more than the Yankees.
First, lots o’ Yankee runs.
Then a day off, yes.
I did not see that coming.
Holmes sucks, but I’ll admit that walking Teoscar made some sense.
Holmes was a dumb decision that worked out.
Cole was great, but he needed to be Superman. He did give up back to back hits after failing to cover first.
He was superman today. Everything he gets paid to be.
Seriously. Those two strikeouts after TWO errors, including Ohtani – amazing.
I wish Wells had swung on the 1st pitch and laid off the 2nd, instead of the other way around.
And that pitch he missed was a pitch to hit.
Verdugo’s been up THREE TIMES!
They should have twenty runs.
The craziest thing about the collapse inning was that it wasn’t the usual suspects. If Gleyber throws one away, expected. If Soto takes a bad route, that happens. But I am not used to Judge just dropping a ball or Volpe with a terrible toss. It’s just so unlikely.
Exactly! The Judge one especially. Literally unbelievable.
He was probably still thinking about his previous AB and why he didn’t hit that one out.
SO NOT A STRIKE!
Umpiring being umpiring, by which I mean – sucking.
Use the machines. Get the fucking calls right!
Terrible terrible call
Maybe the worst call in a series full of bad calls
Oh, I don’t know. We’ve seen some beyond-belief bad calls. There’s just so much competition for that title.
Or do what they do in The Super Bowl. All officials must have 5 years experience, been in a playoff and have high performance grades.
With better cameras it becomes much more obvious that unpires are pretty much guessing in close calls. And sometimes not even close calls.
Meaning that they have the better cameras.
But still prefer to get all these calls wrong.
Kike is SUCH a pain in the ass. I really do admire him, though.
This team and groundballs in exactly the wrong spot. It’s fucking INSANE.
So hard to take.
Not great. I guess they didn’t like Holmes with the bases empty?
They HAD to go to Kahnle. It just hasn’t worked out.
I kind of liked Holmes with the bases empty to see what he could do. I like Kahnle though. Let’s see him get 3 quick outs.
Great start, for the Dodgers. Can they pull off the Yankees RISP fail routine?
Can they bring Cole back now that he has had a few batters to rest?
What is Rizzo DOING?
Jesus, Kahnle. He’s totally in his fucking head right now.
What is Kahnle DOING?
I can’t take it.
I just can’t take it.
That was INSANE. This whole team is just a bunch of chokers.
Yep. They fought in 2004 except for game 7. Except for Gordon They didn’t just surrender
LOL. This is about to be WS over.
This is the opposite of good
What is with the all change approach from kahnle? Is he injured?
It was working for him. He just clearly got flustered worried about the bunt, and instead lost the plate.
Don’t think Weaver can do two tonight, but I kinda like this
I can’t remember a time when Worst Loss of the Decade was so self-evidently staring us all in the face.
This is a disaster.
there was a 93% win probability in the fifth.
Only of the decade?
One thing I will say is that at least the Dodgers likely can’t use Treinen for the 8th AND 9th, so the Yankees might be able to score off of Casparius, Knack, or Honeywell.
In some game a long time ago when the Yankees were down by 8 to Boston and came back to win, one of us was tracking SoSH.
A poster there had an all-time great, and I can only repeat it now:
This is Amelia Earhart crashing the Hindenberg into the Titanic.
strike out and a double play c’mon
REMEMBER WHERE THE FING STRIKE ZONE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why was Wells CALLLING for a pitch out of the zone there?
please
That was incredibly bad pitching with two strikes. He wasted the pitch that he should have used to get the strikeout, so he HAD to go into the zone to make sure he didn’t walk him, and he gave up the flyball.
Doing it all now, doing it all.
I don’t get it. The bat hit his mitt, that’s for sure.
What’s the rule?
The bat can’t hit the mitt.
Catcher’s interference, awarded the base.
Yeah, I was confused by the announcers watching a shot that clearly showed the contact and saying “well, I don’t know there,” as if that didn’t constitute interference.
Unbelievable. They had this game won running away. The other side didn’t take it to them. It’s surreal.
Game 1, game 5. It is what losers do, they lose games they have won. Fifth inning, this inning in game 5.
The Dodgers have to know they totally didn’t earn a win tonight.
I mean, so what, of course.
I disagree. They did what they had to do to win. Great at-bat by Betts to make sure he made contact.
Yes, but that’s nowhere near outweighing the the 5 runs they’d given up.
Just a sloppy, sloppy team
CashBoone can be proud.
Hal? All the games he could get and all the $$$$ he could from all the games get is happy, happy, happy.
What pitcher thinks he can live off change ups one after another? Kahnle. Kahnle, fail.
His fastball hits 97. I don’t understand. Boone? Blake? Kahnle’s afraid to throw his fastball?
This is our shot right now. They can’t have much left in the pen. And if they do, we’ve seen them.
May Judge is back.
Soto wants millions.
Playoff Stanton in the house.
Yankees 1-8 RISP. Dodger 3-9
Yankees 3 errors. Dodgers none.
Yankees need a Scarlet Letter on their uniforms.
Right where the Dodgers want the Yankees, RISP.
Looking that way.
I’m really surprised treinen is still in
The ump is just fucking making shit up.
Jazz has had some really interesting calls against him
Of course Stanton is the easiest person in the whole fucking world to double up
I wouldn’t mind good umpires blowing a call. I resent bad umpires blowing calls in The World Series.
Jesus fucking christ, Stanton.
RISP Fail #1 inning 8.
Hate
1-9
So Volpe, Wells, and Verdugo in the ninth for the season? High-larious.
They’ll pinch-hit the Martian for Verdugo with two outs and no one one for the edifying experience (=pointless trauma) of being the one to lose the World Series (after not having played through three entire rounds of playoffs).
What the fuck was Stanton thinking?
He turned back into a pumpkin there.
he gets antsy late.
Down one, two on, dead man batting.
1-10. And a dead man at an offensive position hitting sixth in the lineup. Thanks Cash.
RISP Fail #2 inning 8. So much RISP Fail, so little time remaining.
Rizzo is cooked.
They so deserved to win and so deserve to lose.
And not just this game.
How do they not know how to play baseball?
Boone inspires them.
Let this team be put out of their misery.
So much ability wasted on this team.
I mean, who wanted to see Rizzo there? Please, buy him out and say goodbye.
In no way do they deserve to win this game. This is the all time post season choke game. Though in all fairness they’ve been choking at the plate with RSIP the whole post season.
Stanton first pitch swinging, and no one wanted to see Rizzo next.
How many truly well hit balls have the dodgers had today? 2?
The Yankees couldn’t bear being the first team out of 4 who won game 5 after going down 0-3 in the WS.
This Kike at-bat is ENDLESS for it being just 1-1.
I’d just walk Kike here.
More stupid things than you see in a month of baseball. The CashBoone Yankees.
We should all disengage from this game, but why would we when more stupid Yankees stuff is possible. What will be next? A guy runs past a teammate on the base paths and that’s how they lose?
I was fine with that unintentional intentional walk there.
Fuck.
I trust an exhausted Weaver here a LOT more than Leiter.
And we’ll hear Boone can’t field or run or hit with RISP for the players. Worst Yankee choke job in post season history.
Sterling still hasn’t noticed that Weaver balk.
He’s still fuming over the 5th inning.
He’s not alone.
I’m fuming over Kahnle and the awful job he did in the 8th.
And all the walks
Leiter would get the win if they win it in the ninth, so they have to do that just for the hilarity of Mark Leiter Jr. having a World Series victory.
I could see them tying it, going to the 29th inning and losing, as someone said above, when one runner passes another on the basepaths.
Have they done anything stupid on the bases yet? Suzyn said this game showed everything wrong with this team all year and I thought that was missing.
That was me.
Will this end with a whimper, or will it end with a bang?
It’s been fun complaining with you guys.
Groundball to second for the last out, right? It’s GOTTA be.
It would be perfect
Pure poetry.
At least he didn’t groundout.
Oh well
Well. That sucked.
Fire Boone.
All that talent only makes the crucial fact that much more plain to see:
_
The Yankees suck.
RAB before yesterday’s game “ If I wasn’t so sure the season will end on a Verdugo ground out to second, I would say it will end with Stanton on deck after being needlessly moved down to fifth.”
Fire Boone.
The Baltimore game was when Volpe just bobbled the game-ending groundout with the based loaded and two outs to let in one run, and then Verdugo misread an easy flyball that would have ended the game and it landed away from him for a game-winning two-run single.
That was actually MORE pathetic of an inning than this one, but this was in the World fucking Series, so it was much worse.
Whimper ending it is. And appropriately, it was Verdugo.
Normally I wouldn’t bitch about a season where they made it this far. But F this. What a chokejob.
Totally agree. I was sad about 2001, and they didn’t hit in 2003, 1995 after a long playoff drought was very painful, but this is different.
Fire Cashman.
Well, you guys have been a pleasure.
Sorry that’s what we were rooting for, but I’m thankful for this joint.
Until whenever!
Go, Packers. Go, NY Rangers.
If ever a team deserved to be booed. Holmes gets booed for blowing a save but 1-10 RISP and 3 errors deserves to be booed.
Holmes got a Hold. Weaver with the BS. Kahnle the well deserved L.
That loss was so bad that I legit don’t know if I want them to bring Kahnle back. I think they might need to start a new bullpen around Weaver.
Next year’s bullpen is Weaver as closer, then…
Hill (re-signed cheaply)
Leiter
Mayza
Cousins
Hamilton
?
?
?
On the bright side:
Verdugo: Gone
Rizzo: Gone
Gleyber: Gone
Boone: maybe?
Cashman: possibly?
And the most optimistic thing I could possibly say:
Every day after this is one less till pitchers and catchers.
Also, losing tonight took the sting out of game 1!
I’m honestly still happy with the season overall. I went in saying I just needed them to MAKE the World Series, and they did it. So I can complain in the micro, of course, but not the macro.
Now I need them to WIN it in one of the next three seasons. And I think they’ll get there if they re-sign Soto. This is still a good team with a good future IF they resign Soto.
The entire baseball operation needs an overhaul. Hal said he was going to hire outside people after the 2023 season, but he then had Cashman check on Cashman, and Cashman said Cashman is doing a sparkling good job (and they made the WS so it must be so).
Hal needs to take Judge’s pitching coach’s word on [lack of] development of offensive players by them. There ‘s a start.
Yeah, I think even CASHMAN should be cool with getting some outside help.
But will he listen?
Soto needs to be like Ohtani and insist the GM take steps to improve the team.
Cashman isn’t firing himself, or Boone. Besides, too many seem comfortable with Boone (and that is a huge issue in the real world), so 99.9% that Boone will be back.
95 and 01 broke my heart but this game, this series, mostly pissed me off. Will the FO forever indulge Boone’s mistakes especially in the post season? Game 1 could’ve kept Cole in, could’ve kept Weaver in, could’ve gone to Hill over Nestor.
i am still shocked they lost this game.
the above was pure cope.
Sherman asked Boone “do you think some of these fundamental things that hovered over your team all year that it came to executing a 3-1 play all year.” Or a lot of other things.
We got Cole for this, and he pitched two excellent WS games, and went 0-0. Defense, base running, RISP, Boone.
Hopefully Hal saw that the problem was not letting Cash spend a little extra money on the bench and bullpen, and he’ll let him spring for a few extra bucks.
Figure the lineup next year is (godwilling Soto resigns)…
Jazz 2B
Soto RF
Judge CF
Jasson LF
Stanton DH
Wells C
Volpe SS
Unknown 3B (Possibly DJ/Waldo)
Unknown 1B
Rotation of
Cole
Gil
Schmidt
Rodon
Cortes
Poteet sixth man, Stroman traded for garbage.
Closer Weaver
New setup guy (possibly a healthy Lo?)
New setup guy
Cousins
Hamilton
Hill
Mayza
IF they resign Soto, that’s a very good team that could easily make the World Series again, a la the 1976 Yankees (who were swept before winning the 1977 Series) or the 2004 Cardinals (who also got swept before winning the 2006 World Series).
Soto said he’s open to all 30 teams and the Yankees don’t have an advantage. He said he wants to be on a winning team, mutts, townies, Dodgers?
Have to go back to 1903 for a worse inning.
Erica Block
World Series: Most unearned runs allowed in one inning
6 Brickyard Kennedy BOS @ PIT – 10/7/1903
5 Gerrit Cole LAD @ NYY – 10/30/2024
5 Vic Raschi NYY @ SF – 10/6/1951
5 Clem Labine NYY @ PIT – 10/6/1960
5 Ed Summers PIT @ DET – 10/11/1909
That’s amazing that there really have been THAT many time when it happened.
Worst inning & game I’ve ever watched as a Yankee fan, and that’s saying something. To me this was worse than 2004. They were in every game 4-6 and didn’t throw any of them away. This was just … beyond belief. To have a 5-0 lead with a HOF pitcher pitching his best game of the year and still lose through complete and utter incompetence … it was choking of the highest caliber. As long as Boone is the manager I am done with this team. They will never win with someone who allows the kind of brainless stuff that happens on this team.
Well, Boone had nothing to do with Judge dropping a fly ball, Volpe pulling a boner, and Cole not covering first base in the fifth inning. Sometimes, it is 100% on the players.
Yeah Boone is responsible for that being an elimination game, but that inning was just the players fucking up.
Very true, but doesn’t that just take us back to Boone, whose teams have been singularly lacking in the basic fundamentals any professional team should have mastered coming into any season?
The screw-ups here did belong, admittedly, to the few, the proud, who aren’t usually a part of that problem, but if there were a normal culture that included that kind of preparation, maybe they would still have been less likely.
Wells looked like he had finally come out of it on Tuesday with a 2B and HR. Wednesday, 0-4, 3 K’s.