Rock Bottom Finds a New Level: The Yankees Have Once Again Completely Embarrassed Themselves At The Hands Of The Boston Red Sox

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It must be nice to root for a team that shows up for a big occasion, knows what to do in important situations, moves runners, makes plays, and most importantly plays baseball. The Boston Red Sox do just that, the New York Yankees do not. Through nine head to head matchups this year, Boston leads 8-1. Since taking the first game of their season series on June 6th when Walker Buehler was knocked around to the tune of seven runs, it's been one way traffic in the wrong direction. 

Many hoped this weekend's series would have a different tune. The Yankees had built some momentum, winning 7 of 8 against non-playoff teams. Boston had lost three in a row, including a mini sweep to the last place Orioles (playing much better of late to be fair). New York had leapfrogged Boston in the wild card standings to take control of the top position. But what would a four game series in the Bronx have in store? Turns out, much of the same theme —embarrassment. 

On Thursday night the Yankees committed four errors and walked nine. I don't know if it's even possible to win a game doing that. They sure as hell weren't interested to find out. 

On Friday night the Yankees got a much needed, ace-like start from Max Fried, who had been scuffling for months leading into that game. Boone opted to not push his starter in a massive game, going to the pen with Fried at 99 pitches after six. The Red Sox went onto score the only run of the game in that 7th, assisted by Nathaniel Lowe's pinch hit double (who only came in the game because Fried had exited).  

Later in the game Anthony Volpe made a terrible decision on a ball hit to short, throwing back behind the runner at 2nd when the plays was not there. 

Boone obviously jumped to Volpe's defense because he must protect his boy: "It's obviously not the right play, but it's a little bit of a heady play too. He almost caught a guy off in scoring position there." That's just one example of many this year where Boone and the organization will overly defend Volpe and create more of a story because of that. Volpe has been awful this year on both sides and has been a big contributor to the team's struggles. He's talked up like he's been one of their best players. It's beyond infuriating and a slap in the face to the fanbase. 

The Yankees lost that game 1-0, failing to see a baserunner reach 2nd base. 

Waiting for them on Saturday was of course Garrett Crochet. That was never going to go well. The Sox ace carved them up all game long and never gave an inch. He was dominant and completely stifled the Yankees lineup. Austin Wells, fresh off his terrible base running snafu last night, dropped a pop up from Bregman, which he happened to have his eyes closed on. 

That fuck up led to the Sox first two runs of the game. That's all Crochet would need, but boy would it get worse. 

The finished product? A 12-1 bludgeoning at the hands of the Red Sox. Boos echoing throughout the stadium in the 9th as the team on the field had quit. That's now eight straight defeats to Boston, the third longest streak in the history of the rivalry. It's been one embarrassment after another, with today's seemingly being rock bottom, but guess what? They play tomorrow night on Sunday Night Baseball for the whole country to see. Just when you think it can't get worse, it does. 

I think the whole "if George was still alive" saying is over-used and it goes without saying that the Boss had his faults, but could you IMAGINE what he'd be doing after these three games? At least it'd be entertaining and heads would roll. Instead I gotta hear this cuck tell me there's plenty of time to turn this around.  

And no, as I have stated many times, Boone is not the main problem. But make no mistake about it, he is part of the problem. This team basically quitting on the field today is an indictment of his managing. The constant mental mistakes that only get worse are on him because of the lack of accountability that litters throughout the clubhouse. They're an extremely dumb team and have been for years. Boone being the one common denominator kinda tells you whose fault that is. Cashman shoulders a ton of the blame for his roster building and overall process that constructs this team. Hal of course is right there too as he's more content with making money than winning championships. No one's job is ever in jeopardy because 45,000 show up to games like today and line his pockets. That's his endgame. These embarrassments only impact the fans, like the idiot typing this blog right now. The players, coaches, front office, owner all get over it easy. We're the losers stuck with the pie on our face. 

At least the US Open starts tomorrow and we have some college football games to watch because boy am I sad. 

P.S. See what I mean about the constant Volpe defending? He has had a disaster of a season yet Boone just pushes that to the side time and time again.