If You Like Pain, Torture and Masochism Then Last Night's Yankees Game Was For You!

If we went through 4,000,000 scenarios for last night’s game I would rate this one being the worst possible scenario with the sun exploding and wiping out all of humanity right before it. I mean it just does not get worse than what we just saw. The Yankees could not have started off better having put up three runs in the games first three batters after Didi launched a three shot off Brian Johnson. Aaron Hicks added a solo shot and the Yankees led 4-0 after just an inning and a half. That was fun. That actually happened. Then the pain came.

Ten unanswered. TEN. CC threw a billion pitches and labored as hard as he has all year. The fat man was sweating enough water to cure a small African village. Still, he only gave up two runs for how ineffective he was. He nibbled too much last night and couldn’t put away hitters, forcing Boone to go to the pen. That’s when Boone brought in Jonathon Holder in relief.

So at what point here does Boone realize Holder doesn’t have it?

Maybe when Benintendi hit a comebacker and Holder’s brain shut off?

Yeah fuck running at Jackie Bradley Jr. because that would be smart. Nah, let’s throw to the base he was leaving and not going to. Baseball 101 is to make the runner go back to the bag he was at. The last thing you do is throw to third in that spot. The last. You have to run at Jackie there. He had JBJ dead to rights. Dead. Run at him and he’s out. Nope.

He threw to Andujar who had to make a tough throw home to Romine for the out. Jackie slid in safely and cut the lead to just one. The momentum the Yankees had at that point was lost. Steve Pearce came up next and sent a ball to outer space.

From there it was an onslaught, but was that enough for Boone to pull Holder? Nope. Let’s see him get out of this one. JD Martinez double. Kinsler single. Nunez double. 8-4. That’s when Boone decided Holder didn’t have it last night. That’s when he went to Chad Green. When Holder gave up that bomb to Pearce after clearly being rattled from the rundown with JBJ you need to pull him. Bring in Chad Green with the bases empty and have him work from there. Instead Boone let the game get away from this team because he’s brainless. He doesn’t know how to manage a bullpen. No clue.

The Sox kept pouring it on because we needed to go through as much pain as humanly possible last night. Of course I was at Carrabis’ apartment for all of this. Not the best place to be when the Red Sox take a machete to your team and leave no survivors. But Aaron Boone wasn’t done making me want to die!

He opted to go with Saturday’s starter to eat the remaining innings. That move I didn’t hate because that meant Luis Cessa can’t pitch on Saturday, or for the rest of the weekend for that matter. Cessa pitched 3.2 innings of relief and got the Yankees through this one without having to murder their bullpen. That probably means Chance Adams will be making his major league debut on Saturday as he’s currently lined up to pitch in Scranton that day. That’s not the part that made me want to strangle Aaron Boone. Nope, that was bringing in Zach Britton in the 8th inning of a 14-6 ball game. You really think we needed to use our newly acquired lefty weapon in a 14-6 game with three games remaining? Sure he only threw six pitches, but he still had to warm up and go through that whole process. Why couldn’t Cessa just stay out there? Those six pitches could have easily been 15. None of it made sense.

At the end of the day that Red Sox onslaught in the 4th inning was impossible to watch. It doesn’t get worse than that. The inning seemed to have gone on for an hour. I felt like I was in a nightmare with no escape. Instead it was real life. Steve Pearce with three home runs. Steve Pearce! There was a possibility I was going to lose my mind and have to be put in a mental hospital during that inning. That’s as bad as it gets.

I hate to side with Sonny Gray here but all you can do is laugh after that shit. The Sox came to play and the Yankees did not. Their pitching failed them in a way I couldn’t have imagined. There is all of a sudden a ton of pressure on Luis Severino to shake off whatever he’s been going through and pitch like the bulldog we know him to be. He’s got to be an ace tomorrow. He has to set the tone early and come out firing. You lose 1-0, you lose 15-7 you have to forget it happened and come back ready to rock tonight. Only way to look at it. See you there.

Fuck.