Yankees.com: Judge adds Coors to HR tally in Yanks’ historically rare loss to Rockies

From Manny Randhawa:

When the final pitch was thrown in the Yankees’ series opener with the Rockies at Coors Field on Friday night, the NBA’s Pacers were trending on social media thanks to their win over the Knicks in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

What many did not expect, though, was that the Rockies would be trending, too.

But there they were, the Rockies — a team that entered Friday’s contest against the American League East-leading Yankees with a record of 8-42, the worst 50-game start to a season in the Modern Era (since 1900) — among the most popular topics in the social media world.

That’s because while anything can and does happen in baseball, the result this night was somewhat stunning: a 3-2 Yankees loss to Colorado that surely had sports fans in New York — already reeling from a playoff defeat that put their Knicks in a 2-0 series hole — slipping down another rung of dejection.

These things do happen in baseball. But this Yankees loss was rare — according to the Elias Sports Bureau, it is tied for the second-largest winning percentage disparity in a loss at least 50 games into a season in the Expansion Era (since 1961). The Rockies’ win percentage was .160 entering the game, and the Yankees’ was .612.

Never like hearing “historically rare loss,” huh?

So, yeah, this was one pathetic ass loss. Only scoring two runs against a shitty pitcher making a spot start, but more importantly, Clarke Schmidt doing one of those weird deals where he was JUST good enough to maybe sneak by five innings, but he just couldn’t do it in the fifth, allowing two two-out singles, pretty much FORCING Boone to make a move, since he was up to almost 100 pitches. When you’re up near 100 pitches in the fifth and you JUST gave up two hits (both after getting two strikes, of course), you HAVE to make a move.

Boone, though, decided to pick basically the LAST guy of his possible options that I would have picked, Tim Hill, who Ryan McMahon was 3 for 9 against coming into tonight, with a home run. And in a position where McMahon knew Hill needed to throw strikes. It was a terrible decision by Boone, only compounded by the fact that Hill hasn’t been pitching well recently. He only JUST gave up a home run in his LAST APPEARANCE. Hill is in a major funk, and might just be washed due to his age, but whether it’s a funk or him being done, that was a TERRIBLE choice by Boone in that spot, and, sure enough, it resulted in an awful loss. Of course, the bullpen all shut the shitty Rockies down AFTER that, but too little, too late at that point.

To be fair to the Yankees, a couple of things were of note in this game. One, the Yankees definitely did hit the ball hard, but right at dudes, including a rough double play by Austin Wells with two on and no outs in the…fourth, I want to say? So a lot of that was bad luck. Second, due to how much they used their bullpen in the Texas series, Devin Williams and Luke Weaver were both unavailable, so obviously, some of the shittier guys were going to have to pitch, which I think we all knew was a real possibility due to Clarke Schmidt’s inability to not throw a ton of pitches, even as he generally pitches well (Schmidt also fucked himself with the first Rockies run, where a wild pitch moved the runner into scoring position ahead of a game-tying single). Even with that in mind, I think Boone made a terrible choice with Hill, but it’s fair to say that I wouldn’t have been, like, “Oh man, awesome! Yerry De Los Santos is in!” in that spot, either.

The Yankees lost 12-2 to the White Sox last season, on route to the White Sox having the most losses in MLB history, so this is par for the course for the Yankees. Now, losing this series? THAT would be shocking. So I assume they’ll do that now.