Yankees.com: Yanks’ boppers erase 8-0 deficit, but fateful 8th erases division lead

From Bryan Hoch:

The Yankees walked off the field in the bottom of the first inning trailing by seven runs, knowing they’d need their greatest comeback of the year thus far to overcome Will Warren’s rough opening act.

Giancarlo Stanton helped close the gap with his first home run since returning from the injured list, capping a six-run fifth inning. Aaron Judge brought them all the way back in the eighth, launching a two-run shot into the second deck in left field — a no-doubter that drew salutes from his teammates on the top step of the dugout.

But Devin Williams — summoned to face the top of the Blue Jays’ order in the eighth inning — bounced a changeup for a wild pitch that allowed George Springer to trot home with the go-ahead run, handing the Yankees an 11-9 loss on Wednesday evening at Rogers Centre.

“Any loss is brutal, but for the offense to come back and battle back and tie it up like that, that’s all you can do there,” Judge said. “Just fight until the last out.”

I’m sorry, you know how disgusted I was at them for the first two losses in this series, but I can’t help it. I didn’t mind this one. Coming back from 8-0 to tie it at 9? That’s fucking awesome. And the game was blown by Devin Williams sucking for, like, the second time in two months. I can’t get mad about that. I just can’t.

I can be irked at Will Warren for being incredibly bad, but overall, I’m not angry at them. I’ve been knocking them for being pathetic losers, but they weren’t pathetic losers tonight. They came back from 8-0 down. That’s fucking nuts. Good for them.

Maybe they can salvage the final game of the series and leave Toronto still in first place. Maybe they can’t. Either way, I’m feeling a bit better about this bunch of losers than I was before they had a comeback from 8-0 down.

Trent Grisham is back, Jazz will almost assuredly finally get pushed off of third, Will Warren sucked, but he’s coming off a string of good starts, so whatever, sometimes dudes fucking suck, it happens. Even if they fall out of first place, it’s early July, they’re ten games over .500. They’re not a piece of shit team. I think Toronto and Tampa Bay are playing over their heads at the moment. I think the Yankees have a better roster than both of those teams, they just slumping at the moment. Hopefully that turns around. They were in second place heading into the All-Star break last year and easily won the division, and last year’s Orioles team is a lot better than either of these Toronto or Tampa Bay teams.

Featured image is Devin Williams giving the game away on a wild pitch (after the game, there was this whole thing about whether Rice should have corralled it. Dude, the ball bounced WAY away from Rice. He had not shot. What a weird thing for Rice to try to take the blame on).

Oh, as an aside, how in the FUCK do you walk George Springer with one out and Vladdy on deck? Williams really didn’t have his control at ALL, which was just unfortunate.