Yankees.com: Bullpen falters, tempers flare in Yankees’ 11-inning loss

From Bryan Hoch:

The Yankees toppled their first foe of the evening, denting high-octane rookie Chase Burns, who looked like he’d stepped out of a video game in an impressive Major League debut. Their bigger problems came in the late innings, both with the bullpen and their tempers.

Jonathan Loáisiga surrendered a bases-clearing double in the seventh inning and Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected in the ninth for arguing balls and strikes. Aaron Judge scored on an 11th-inning wild pitch, but Spencer Steer and Gavin Lux knocked in runs facing Mark Leiter Jr. in the home half as the Yankees fell to the Reds, 5-4, on Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park.

This was definitely a Murphy’s Law-type game, where the one area that had been doing well for the Yankees, the bullpen, faltered big time with Lo, one of their best relievers, getting hurt by some soft contact to load the bases, but then allowing HARD contact with the bases-clearing double.

Then, of course, Boone made one of the craziest moves he’s made all season, and for a guy who does ALL sorts of crazy shit, that’s saying a lot, by trying to somehow squeeze a SECOND inning out of Mark Leiter. I don’t like Ian Hamilton, either, but you fucking pitch Hamilton or Tim Hill there, you sure as fuck DON’T try to get a second inning out of Mark Leiter! It was just MADNESS. Pure madness. Just a completely moronic decision that seemed doomed for failure, and fail it did. Leiter had just thrown 27 pitches LAST NIGHT!

Heck, why even pull Rodon at 88 pitches through six shutout innings?

But honestly, I still think this team is getting hurt more by bad luck than anything. They have the best run differential in baseball, and yet are six games below their pythag. I have to imagine things will settle out for them eventually in a positive fashion.

Meanwhile, it was fun seeing the Red Sox get walked off right before I posted this.

Featured image is the Reds celebrating their win.