Were the Yankees screwed before giving up grand slam vs. Indians?

The New York Yankees gave up a crucial grand slam to the Indians on Friday night in Game 2 of the ALDS, but maybe it shouldn’t have happened at all.

Game 2 of the ALDS between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians on Friday night has been a wild one, and this was no more evident than what the Indians did in the bottom of the sixth inning. Down 8-3 and with two outs in the inning, Francisco Lindor launched a grand slam deep into right field to cut the lead to 8-7.

It provided maybe the most electric moment of the postseason thus far, which is just underway.

However, when you look back at it, this maybe never should have happened. And really, it’s sort of the fault of the Yankees here.

First base was filled for the Indians prior to the grand slam because of a hit-by-pitch. In real time, it did appear as if the ball hit the batter. However, when you slowed down the video a bit, you can clearly see that the ball hit the knob of the bat before heading into the mitt of catcher Gary Sanchez.

Did the umpire screw the Yankees there? Well, yes, to a certain extent. But as with many calls in the game, this one was bang-bang. The umpire was certain that it hit the batter so he made the call.

But in this day and age, teams have the ability to challenge calls, and for whatever reason, they chose not to get this one looked at. And well, we can all see what happened from there.

Were the Yankees screwed on this play? Yeah, but with not challenging what was pretty obvious, they screwed themselves.