The worst nightmares of New York Yankees fans reappeared this season, and it was now at Yankee Stadium, when a moment that they would not want to relive, was repeated with certain elements in common that made them remember a painful moment for the recent history of their team.
And nobody would want to relive that moment that triggered the debacle in the fifth game of the Fall Classic, when in the center field of Dodger Stadium, the great Aaron Judge fell short trying to get the out on a routine fly ball off the bat of Tommy Edman, which allowed Kike Hernandez to reach second and we already know how it ended.
That fateful fifth inning in which the Yankees were blanking the Dodgers 5-0 and which still hurts today.
Reliving Nightmares
Unfortunately, and now at the stadium in the Bronx, a similar episode was experienced, with the same protagonist, in the same inning, and basically the same blunder, although the error did not change the outcome of the game that the Yankees ended up winning 4-3.
The opponent this time was the San Diego Padres, Martin Maldonado was batting in the fifth inning with the score in favor of the Padres 1-0, the ball was deep but catchable, Aaron Judge went almost against the fence and in the warning track he sought to make another routine out, but the ball bounced off his glove and that was enough for a machinery of mockery and bad memories to be set in motion that the player himself had to take with a certain humor to not ‘get hooked’.
The mockery was not long in coming
Comments such as “The memories I never wanted,” “These plays are for October, not May, haha,” or “And I thought Juan Soto couldn’t play good defense,” filled the video post of the play uploaded by the ‘Talkin’ Yanks’ account to the X platform.
“I think falling short in the World Series will probably stay with me until the day I die. Like any other loss, those things don’t go away. They’re battle scars along the way. Hopefully, when my career is over, we’ll have a lot of battle scars, but also a lot of wins,” said Aaron Judge about his mistake at the end of the game.
What is a fact is that it is more than evident that the Yankees’ fans forgive, but do not forget and Judge is more than aware of this and will seek to minimize those mistakes to finally hide under the rug the nightmare that will haunt him – as he says – until the end of his days.
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