Judge bid at Tying HR too high x11; as Yanks drop finale
NEW YORK — With Aaron Judge’s final at-bat soaring into the gap in left center field, a lot was up in the air.
has two outs. The bottom half of the ninth inning. Standalone game. The umpire swings at the first ball he sees.
However, when it landed, the only thing it came into contact with The object was the glove of Rays center fielder Jose Siri, who was standing in the middle of the warning run. Jason Adam near Tampa Bay couldn’t believe it.
Like that, the Yankees have taken it 8-7 The loss, their third straight comeback attempt, was cut short by inches.
“I played very well, but at the beginning I played too much High,” the judge said. “Especially how deep it was in there, [I was] kind of praying for a miracle to happen once it got there.”
“I thought27 was pretty deep,” Adam said. “But thankfully, [the judge] missed it more than I thought.”
Bader seems Made one of the game-changing performances in the fifth inning when
“Just watching his swing, I There’s just a sense of where I want to put myself on the course to defend two fairways, and it’s pretty much straight up,” Budd said. “Good fight, just trying to put it away.”
“This is a game in The big picture, my job is to get in there and minimize the damage,” Abreu said through a club translator. “Unfortunately, we missed the spot. … We executed that pitch and I think we got the result we wanted. But unfortunately, it ended up in his power zone, so we paid today paid a high price.”
The Yankees used the Judge hit an RBI single, then pulled it back with a two-run homer by Anthony Volpe in the eighth. But they couldn’t finish the game in the ninth.
Although it may only be mid-May, but The new, balanced schedule introduced this season as part of the collective bargaining agreement 111 means The Yankees will have five fewer games against the Rays and other division rivals. The two parties will not meet again until July 30.
Still, the Yankees are confident, even with some distance in the standings, at On the field, they weren’t far behind the Rays.
“This is what this team is made of,” Judge explain. “We did a lot last year with some big comeback wins and this year is no exception. No matter what the score is, we’re not out.”
