Yankees' Epic Defensive Collapse in World Series Game 5

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00:00Game number five of the 2024 World Series.

00:07Last night inside Yankee Stadium up in the Bronx, the Pinstripes trying to make history

00:11for the first time in World Series history when a team has held a 3-0 series advantage

00:17trying to at least force a game six and a trip back to Los Angeles to head to Dodger

00:22Stadium.

00:23L.A. trying to hold on to win a World Series in five and not give New York any semblance

00:30of life.

00:31And early on, it felt like the Yanks would make that history.

00:35Garrett Cole, an otherworldly performance on the bump.

00:39Aaron Judge awoken with a two-run shot in the first, followed back-to-back by Jazz Chisholm,

00:45Giancarlo Stanton continuing to deliver at the dish.

00:49And then DRS in game five, it was the fifth inning, a disastrous, and I mean disastrous

00:56defensive display out of New York that you could argue with the significance and the

01:02context of that stage might be the worst defensive inning we have seen in Major League Baseball

01:09playoff history.

01:10Two confirmed errors and one play that was officially not scored an error, but an infield

01:16hit for Mookie Betts.

01:18That might be the worst defensive woe of them all.

01:21The Dodgers played five in the fifth.

01:23They tie the game.

01:24The Yankees take the lead just an inning later, but the Dodgers rally again.

01:30In the eighth, two sack flies.

01:33That's all that needed to happen as the Dodgers make history of their own.

01:38The largest comeback deficit to clinch a World Series ever, seven to six in game number five,

01:44the second World Series championship for the Dodgers in the last five seasons.

01:48Who's to say Cole wasn't going to go nine innings pitch yesterday with a shutout and

01:52a complete game in the World Series to force a game number six.

01:55That's where we were headed.

01:56And I think you're right because sometimes we get caught up in being a creature of the

01:59moment and what we see and we're captivated by that.

02:02Oh, that was the worst inning I've ever seen.

02:04We say that's the best catch I've ever seen.

02:06That's the best touchdown.

02:07That's the best comeback.

02:08This might have been in playoff history.

02:10No lie.

02:11The worst inning you will ever see.

02:12You're looking at a guy on first base, you know, to lead off the inning, a simple fly

02:16ball to center field.

02:17The worst part about it was judge misplays that ball, which I don't even know how he

02:21does it.

02:22Takes his eye off it.

02:23Yeah, but he's probably should have just been able to pick it up and throw it the second

02:26base.

02:27But it got away from him.

02:28The Brunner was still going to get there.

02:29That's fine.

02:30Then you have the terrible play by Volpe, which he basically spiked the javelin throw

02:33into the ground when he was 15 feet away from third base and jazz Chisholm.

02:37And then the worst one, maybe even of all of those, which again, the judge wins probably

02:40graded worse because that's just a simple can of corn fly ball rate to you.

02:44But the fact that Anthony Rizzo figured the pitcher was coming over with the pitcher figured

02:48Rizzo is you learn that day number one of spring training, whenever you have pitchers

02:52and catchers report, what's the first thing that they show?

02:55Pictures on the mound, not throwing the baseball, but simulating throwing the baseball and running

02:58to first base.

03:00It's second nature.

03:01The fact that you didn't even get Gericault to run over to first base because he figured

03:04you had it.

03:05That's like saying, Ben, you know, in little league baseball, we always back up the basis.

03:09How many times you see the catcher run up the first baseline just to back up a throw

03:12with the third baseline to do the same thing.

03:14It's just ingrained in you.

03:15And the fact that he forgotten the biggest moment, which would have got them out of the

03:18inning with no runs scored, and they would have won that baseball game horrible across

03:23the board.

03:24It's amazing that major league baseball players made three of those errors in the same inning

03:28to cost themselves the game.

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