Yankees suffer defensive meltdown, embarrass themselves in series loss to Blue Jays
Toronto – With their ace on the mound and a chance to leave Canada with a good serial victory against the Blue Jays on Wednesday, the Yankees embarrassed. Again.
After another atrocious baseball night, the bombers fell, 8-4. The loss had four yankees errors. This also placed the 56-46 Ballclub of Aaron Boone at four games behind the Blue Jays, who have not abandoned their advance on the American League East since I swept the Yanks for four games at the Rogers Center earlier this month.
“But not good enough,” said Boone, but he continued saying that the Yankees “have a very good defensive club”. It does not matter that they have totaled seven errors in the series, two of which in the ugly defeat on Monday, and entered Wednesday classified 17th in out above the average despite the priority for defensive improvement compared to the offseason.
The Yankees were in the top 10 for the defensive races saved and the value of commissioning, but the bad alignments and the fundamentals have been a problem for them for some time now. Simply ask the winning team of the World Series Dodgers a year ago.
“We have not played well on the defense,” said Aaron Judge, who doesn’t Make a mistake on Wednesday. “We have a lot that we have to clean, and this is one of the things we have to clean.”
The last defensive disaster of the Yankees started during the fifth round on Wednesday, while Max Fried walked two strikers and launched wild land before making an expensive launch error on a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Tapper to the third.
Fried, who generally manages his position well, tried to take off and around Davis Schneider, who ran at home. The launch moved away from JC Esmarra and sank into the backstop. This allowed Schneider not only to score, but also to George Springer, because neither Fried nor Oswald Peraza covered the house.
“It is one of those bullets that is not in the ground,” said Boone. “It’s a kind of swing base where you try to keep a race on the board. It’s a bit to do or die there. “
Added Fried: “It can’t happen.”
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Jazz Chisholm Jr. made another mistake to launch later in the Channel. This no longer led to races, but the lounge-fest was far from over.
Cody Bellinger, a formidable defender, could not find an Ernie Clement Flyball in the lights of the sixth round, which officially led to a triple one. Myles Straw followed with a double RBI.
“I saw it suddenly,” said Bellinger. “I lost it in the sky once it arrived above the lights. I was just trying to guess where it was going to be, and I exceeded it a little.”
Fried, making his first departure since a Blister has torn his index finger before the stars, then came out of blood on his little finger. He said it came from a cut, a product to launch his curve.
“It happens. It is not to be feared,” said Fried, adding that his scholarship was long after the start.
The Lefty totaled six points (4 deserved) in 5.1 rounds, because Ben Rice was accused of an error before the end of the sixth framework. This marked another race for the Blue Jays.
The seventh round, on the other hand, saw the nailing coach of the Yankees, Matt Blake, being eject. Boone joined her a few moments later after discussing the marble referee Manny Gonzalez.
Neither were on the bench when Jasson Domínguez added to the collection of calamities at the bottom of the seventh, while the left field player overturned a bouncing ball, giving Guerrero additional bases and the Yankees their last error of the night.
Bo Bichette proceeded with a circuit of two points off Scott Effross, the last nail in the self -taught coffin of the Yankees.
Domínguez actually started scoring on Wednesday, smoking a solo shot from Chris Bassitt during the second round. A double Guerrero and a single of Clement gave Toronto his first advance in fourth, but Anthony Volpe, dealing with his own defensive problems this season, equaled the match with a circuit in the fifth.
The judge recognized the match in the sixth after the little Fried launch, hitting a two -point jack for his 37th circuit of the season. Alas, the Yankees push came with a defensive crisis.
“We must, obviously, tighten it,” said Boone. “I am convinced that we will do it. We continue to work there. We have good defenders here, but tonight was obviously a difficult night for us. ”
The way Boone sees it, the negligence of Yankees on the ground has just been at Rogers Center. Although this is not exactly true, they had four mistakes in the four games series that took place in Toronto from June 30 to July 3.
“I think it is here and it is in this building that we have not played well,” said Boone. “I don’t know if it just comes on the lawn. It is not really an excuse. It’s the same game, but obviously, I think that in these two series, we gave them too many withdrawals, and that cost us.
“We had two shit series here. There is no way to get around this. So maybe we will have a chance to come back here at a given time and return this script. It is a place, over the years, when we have really played.
The Blue Jays, on their credit, are fast and qualified to put the ball in play. They benefited from 12 errors of the Yankees in 10 confrontations in total this season.
Boone also considered that his players could become “tight”, afraid of making additional mistakes after the initial errors occur.
“The last thing I want us to do is to tighten and things like that and play so as not to make a mistake,” said Boone. “I cannot do that, but we have to continue working. Continue to work in our fundamental principles, day after day, and that will continue to improve.”
Boone recently shared a similar feeling with regard to the bad basketball of his team. The judge, however, does not believe that his teammates press after defensive misadventures.
“I don’t think so,” said the captain. “Many of these guys had a long race in the playoff series last year. We have been in great moments, large situations. So everyone in this room is tested in combat.
“We never have the impression that something closes here or that guys become nervous or frightened. You have to play aggressive. This is the mentality with which we try to play.”
Whatever the reason for the errors of the Yankees, they are a huge reason why the team is now 3-7 against Toronto this year, obtaining a defeat of the season series before the two teams play in the Bronx in September.
The Yankees are also 11-18 against their Rivals in the East. Boone and his players, well aware of this record, said that the trend of the bad divisional game was to change before this last Blue Jays series. The judge added that “it’s a good time to start getting hot” after winning a set of three games on the brave of the stars break.
“Oh, it happens,” he insisted on Wednesday with the Yankees at Rock Bottom. “We have not yet struck our hot sequence, but we are going to do it. And when this is the case, be careful.”
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