Yankees' Defensive Blunders Define Critical Game Moment

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00:00As history will tell the tale of this series, as we'll all look

00:06back on and focus on, it will be the disastrous defensive

00:10output from the New York Yankees in the fifth. Aaron

00:14Judge, a routine soft liner to center just off his glove and

00:19on to the outfield grass. Anthony Volpe, a good play to

00:23stop the ball but not a good throw trying to get the force

00:25out at third. In the plays, you know, that was not recorded as

00:29an error actually might be the worst defensive miscue. If you

00:33wanna blame him 50-50, if you wanna say 100 zips, 75-25, it

00:39was Garrett Cole's inability to cover the first base bag. It

00:42was a weirdly soft grounder to Anthony Rizzo that he did not

00:46charge and perhaps misplayed. Zeno, when you look back on the

00:50fifth inning, if you had to point to one thing above all

00:54else, what was the gravest mistake the Yankees made? I

01:00mean, god, how do you pick one? Um you know, I I honestly, the

01:05most routine and easy play was judges, right? If you wanna

01:10talk about level of egregiousness, that was the

01:12easiest out to get out of all of them. Like the thing about

01:15the ground ball to Rizzo was it did if you look at the replay,

01:18it kinda checked on him, had a little English on it and rolled

01:21away from him which sort of set his footing off which is why

01:24he was flat-footed and not really ready to roll. I'm not

01:27making excuses. Anthony Rizzo's gotta move his big behind

01:31faster. You know, Jackson might be watching. Family-friendly

01:35program. Cole should know better to to move and the scary

01:39part is is I don't know if you saw this. There was a side by

01:42side of Mookie Betts first inning hit which was nearly

01:46identical to the one in the fifth, a little number down the

01:49first base and Cole was in two totally different positions for

01:53those two but again, you know, you're the MVP. You made a

01:57great defensive play earlier in left field running into the

02:01wall. That one to me was the most egregious because it was

02:04the simplest one and the most preventable one from happening

02:08and it changes the entire trajectory of the rest of the

02:10inning. It's it's that first one. You know, again, go back

02:14to 03 with Steve Bartman. You forget the booted ball at

02:17shortstop that let that door open for the rest of the things

02:21to fall apart for the Cubs that year. So, the first one is the

02:25most important one. It changes everything. It changes the way

02:28you pitch to the next batter. It changes the way the count

02:30goes. It changes everything. So, that's the one to me that I'm

02:34I'm just when I watched, I said, there's no way that he

02:37closed his glove early and just had that happen.