{"id":120459,"date":"2024-10-31T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120459"},"modified":"2024-10-31T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:29:45","slug":"world-series-debacle-shows-everything-wrong-with-aaron-judge-era-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120459","title":{"rendered":"World Series debacle shows everything wrong with Aaron Judge-era Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Yankees played two different games on Wednesday night. The one where they hit homers and Gerrit Cole dominates and you can convince yourself they are the type of team that should win a World Series.<\/p>\n<p>And the one in which they botch and bumble and you can convince yourself the whole group met in the parking lot before the game.<\/p>\n<p>It should be put in a time capsule to describe the 2024 team.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the Yankees could not homer their way beyond superior competition. They had control of both the first game of this World Series and the last game of the 2024 season. They lost both. Two of the most inexcusable, painful defeats in their history. They never cleaned up all their issues of poor fundamentals and execution that so plagued them all year. So their season ends not with a 28th championship, but misery of what could have and should have been.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gerrit Cole of the Yankees reacts on the field after a throwing error by Anthony Volpe allows Enrique Hern\u00e1ndez of the Los Angeles Dodgers to reach third base safely during the fifth inning of Game 5 on Oct. 30, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dodgers beat the Yankees 7-6 to win their eighth World Series and celebrate on the Yankee Stadium field.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Yankees lost because stars Cole and Aaron Judge were both G-O-A-Ts and goats in this clincher. Because they had a fifth inning that boggled the mind for ineptitude \u2014 except if you watched the Yankees all year. And because when the Dodgers hit back, the Yankees could not counter enough.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>It should.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Yankees center fielder Aaron Judge makes an error on a ball hit by Los Angeles Dodgers Tommy Edman during the fifth inning of Game 5 on Oct. 30, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the story of the Judge Era. When the AL Central is in the way, the Yankees are world-beaters. When sturdier competition gets in the way, the Yankees do not win the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees were 31-9 (.775) against the AL Central (postseason included) this year and 71-65 (.522) against everyone else. They have played seven rounds against the AL Central in the playoffs since Judge\u2019s first full season in 2017, including two to win the AL pennant this year, and advanced through all seven. They have played eight rounds against everyone else and won one, the one-game wild card in 2018 vs. the A\u2019s, who kind of spiritually (if not geographically) belong in the AL Central.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yankees lose the World Series to the Dodgers postgame live show | Pinstripe Post\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpauhT_rTGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They won one World Series game this year \u2014 Game 4, when the Dodgers threw none of their main pitchers: The AL Central of strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is the Yankees should have won two other games, but they lost Game 1 in Los Angeles with a bunch of bad defense. You will never guess what happened in Game 5.<\/p>\n<p>They took a 5-0 lead over the first three innings and Cole did not permit a hit through the first four. Judge hit a two-run homer three batters into the game and Jazz Chisholm went back-to-back. Alex Verdugo delivered an RBI single in the second and Giancarlo Stanton led off the third with his Yankee record seventh homer of this postseason. Judge made a dazzling catch while slamming into the left-center field wall in the fourth \u2014 and because it was Judge, it felt great for the Yankees \u2014 as he goes, so goes the team so often.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole points to first as Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts runs on an infield single allowing a run to score during the fifth inning of Game 5 on Oct. 30, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And this felt like he had finally joined the 120th World Series with his bat and glove. That turned up the volume at Yankee Stadium and opened the door that the Yankees would become the first team of 25 to ever go down oh-three in the World Series and force even a Game 6 and force this best-of-seven to Los Angeles for a potential baseball miracle.<\/p>\n<p>But the tenor of the game changed when Judge dropped a Tommy Edman one-on, no-out fly ball in the fifth \u2014 as Judge goes, so goes the Yankees. Then Anthony Volpe spiked a throw to third that Chisholm could not corral and the bases were loaded. And still Cole had a chance to wiggle out. He struck out both Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani. And then Mookie Betts hit a squiggly grounder to first.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing done in spring training from the first day to last like pitchers fielding practice \u2014 going over the routine constantly. Going over a play like this when Rizzo should have charged. He didn\u2019t. Cole should have not just broken to the bag and stopped, but actually raced to cover first. Betts, therefore, reached easily and a run scored. A door flew open.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the Yankees can\u2019t field a ball on a throwing error by Anthony Volpe allowing Enrique Hernandez #8 of the Los Angeles Dodgers to reach third base safely during the fifth inning. <span class=\"credit\">Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Freeman, the Series MVP, lashed a two-run single and Yankee killer Teoscar Hernandez a two-run tying double. The air was out of the Yankees and the Stadium. The Yankees would actually take a 6-5 lead in the sixth, but it was an inning in which they had three walks and no hits. They drew eight walks from the second to eighth innings and that was the lone run that scored. They went 1-for-10 overall with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Weaver was on the mound for two sacrifice flies in the eighth that put the Dodgers ahead \u2014 of course aided by another Yankee mistake, a catcher\u2019s interference against Austin Wells.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers had their starter Jack Flaherty knocked out after recording just four outs, they were reeling all game trying to cover it with their pitching. And the Yanks could not accept the gifts \u2014 not when they persisted in giving more gifts away.<\/p>\n<p>So a World Series they could have and should have won, instead ended in five games. The Yankees never cleaned up their game \u2014 and are off to a winter of regrets because of it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/31\/sports\/world-series-debacle-shows-everything-wrong-with-aaron-judge-era-yankees\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees played two different games on Wednesday night. 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