MLB Twitter roasts Yankees for ninth-inning choke in Field of Dreams game
MLB Twitter roasted the Yankees for a ninth-inning choke job against the White Sox in a wild Field of Dreams extravaganza.
The Field of Dreams game was everything MLB could have hoped for and more. Unless you’re a Yankees fan.
New York had the rug pulled out from under them in Iowa, to the delight and frustration of Twitter.
It looked like Giancarlo Stanton had played the hero when he put New York ahead in the top of the ninth with a two-run homer. Celebrations of the four-run inning were premature.
The Yankees sent Zack Britton out to close the game and he gave up a two-run home run to Tim Anderson. The walkoff stung after coming so close to an epic comeback.
Aaron Boone was just asked to sum up the whole “Field of Dreams” experience.
— David Lennon (@DPLennon) August 13, 2021
“That ruined it a little bit, honestly,” he said.#Yankees
This is the first time the Yankees have lost a game that both Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton homered in. They were 11-0
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) August 13, 2021
(h/t @CharlieRGa)
Yankees fans were beside themselves with some NSFW reactions.
JUST FUCKING DEVASTATING WHAT THE FUCK JUST HORRIBLE HoRRIbLE!!! pic.twitter.com/X4cQc26QxO
— Big Nick Turturro (@NickTurturro1) August 13, 2021
Yankees baseball got me like pic.twitter.com/oPijtrBjAE
— Andy Kalmowitz (@andy_witz) August 13, 2021
Just make it stop already.
— Dominick Mastrangelo (@DomMastrangelo1) August 13, 2021
Most painful Yankee season of my lifetime and there’s not even a close second. https://t.co/GDxVNvc4SB
I am absolutely devastated by that outcome and by no means am I satisfied that that was a good game for baseball. I could not care less. I rather it be the worst game in the world and have the worst ratings in MLB history and have the Yankees win. Fuck
— Dan Rourke (@DanAlanRourke) August 13, 2021
i wish we would have lost 7-4 i die inside a little bit and lose year on my life every time the yankees have one of these bullpen blow ups that cost them the game. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THE YANKEES HAD A NICE EASY 123 INNING FOR A SAVE "GUT PUNCH" RIGHT BOONE IM OUT
— JoezMcfly🇩🇴 (@JoezMcfLy) August 13, 2021
The bullpen took a beating, not just on the mound.
The Yankees' bullpen really is wilting in some big spots here and costing them:
— Matt Ehalt (@MattEhalt) August 13, 2021
--Chapman vs. Angels
--Chapman vs. Mets
--Green vs. Houston
--Green vs. Boston
--Entire unit vs. Boston (Sunday meltdown)
--Britton tonight
They just don't rise to the occasion way too often.
The Yankees pen just couldn’t go the distance. A tale as old as 1989. #FieldOfDreamsGame #SquadUp #MLB
— Dylan Scott (@DylanScottTV) August 13, 2021
#yankees bullpen has authored some brutal losses, and that one is right up there. Absolute momentum-killer.
— Zach Braziller (@NYPost_Brazille) August 13, 2021
This is not new at all for New York.
Yankees have allowed 5 walk-off HR this season. That's the most in MLB.
— Katie Sharp (@ktsharp) August 13, 2021
Yankees: 6th loss this season after leading in the 9th inning or later, most in the AL.
— David Bearman (@DavidBearmanPFN) August 13, 2021
Per @ESPNStatsInfo, That's also the Yankees most such losses in a season since 1997 (7)
Per @DBearmanESPN, Marlins won WS that year #FieldOfDreamsGame
The schadenfreude on Twitter was everywhere
Amazing baseball game where the #Yankees lose? Sign me up for more of this! pic.twitter.com/pFU348sPNr
— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) August 13, 2021
I gotta give it to the Yankees. Nobody loses more tragically and prolifically than them.
— Aram Leighton (@AramLeighton8) August 13, 2021
I follow the Yankees in incognito mode to enjoy seeing them repeatedly screw up without risking Google mistaking me for a Yankees fan. https://t.co/BRIW3vpyUR
— Tom Barclay (@mrtommyb) August 13, 2021
Baseball fans processing the White Sox walk-off victory into the corn after the Yankees came back in the 9th. #MLBatFieldofDreams pic.twitter.com/IEC3qU9ydj
— Monkey Knife Fight (@mkf) August 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/antwanstaley/status/1426015790206263301
Watching the Yankees lose always makes you feel better, it really doesn’t matter if we suck right now.
— Boston Strong (@BostonStrong_34) August 13, 2021
The Field of Dreams game became a nightmare for the Yankees
Yankees fans may be distraught, but baseball fans were generally thrilled with the Field of Dreams game.
It featured eight home runs into the cornfield and some late-inning drama. The scriptwriters couldn’t have done a better job.
Jose Abreu opened things up with a first-inning blast for the White Sox. Aaron Judge smacked in a three-run homer in the third. Then Anderson drove in a run before Eloy Jimenez and Seby Zavala hit home runs giving Chicago a commanding 7-3 lead.
The Yankees got one back with a Brett Gardner homer in the sixth, but they still went into the do-or-die ninth inning down by three. Aaron Judge produced a two-out homer to give New York a chance. Stanton undoubtedly thought he’d won the game when his home run put his team up 8-7.
Just like that, sports will lift you up and crash you back down.
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