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Yankees Forfeit Another Easy Run Thanks to Lack of Effort

It's another bad incident in a stretch of misery for the Yankees.

Josh Wilson

Anthony Volpe attempts to score for the Yankees
Anthony Volpe attempts to score for the Yankees /
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Just Thursday, in a sweep at the hands of the Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees fans let Trent Grisham hear it over a ninth-inning mental blunder that resulted in a single turning into a double.

The next night, the Yankees base running took an easy run off the board for the Yankees.

In the bottom of the third inning on Friday against the Boston Red Sox, New York had runners on the corners (DJ LeMahieu on first, Anthony Volpe on third). Ben Rice hit a ball straight to first and was tagged for the second out of the inning. LeMahieu charged at second and was tagged out for the double play. Presumably, Volpe should have had enough time to score from third base to at least get a run out of the exchange before switching sides.

Instead, Volpe lumbered into home and didn't touch the plate before LeMahieu was tagged out. Result? No run.

It was the correct call by the home plate umpire, and one that's hard to watch for Yankees fans. The only people to blame are Volpe, for ball watching the play at-hand and not hustling home, and LeMahieu for not having the situational awareness to get himself engaged in a rundown to give Volpe as much time as possible.

It's a reminder that the bad times are yet to turn around for the Bronx Bombers, who have lost 14 of their last 20 games. They've gone from up two and a half games up in the AL East to down two.

Fans could not accept what they saw:

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Josh Wilson

JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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