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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Max Fried gave up two home runs, the New York Yankees had one taken off the board by fan interference and then their season ended Thursday night with a whimper.
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season → give → whimper
After Anthony Volpe’s would-be tying homer in the bottom of the sixth inning turned into a double on video review, the Yankees did not get a runner past second base.
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Yankees → tie → base
When leadoff hitter Trent Grisham struck out to end the ninth, it capped a 4-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 3 of the AL Division Series and a series sweep that extended the Yankees’ championship drought to 17 years.
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that → strike → years
After sweeping Boston in the Wild Card Series, New York never led against the Rays and has not advanced past a higher-seeded team in the postseason since 2020.
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York → sweep → 2020
Without injured slugger Aaron Judge, the Yankees were one-hit and shut out in the opener, when catcher Austin Wells’ baserunning blunder loomed large.
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blunder → hit → opener
Game 2 included four errors to get pushed to the brink of elimination.
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Game → include → elimination
The Yankees didn’t go quietly — at least initially.
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Yankees → go → ?
When Fried gave up a run apiece in the third and fourth innings, the bats responded each time to tie the score.
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bats → give → score
Victor Mesa Jr. crushed Fried’s 80th and final pitch for a go-ahead, two-run home run that was far from a short-porch homer like Ryan Vilade’s earlier.
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that → crush → Vilade
It looked like New York would get it right back in a redemption moment for Volpe, but a Jeffrey Maier-esque moment came back to haunt the home team 30 years later.
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moment → look → team
With rookie George Lombard Jr. on base — and Wells would have been if not for a successful ABS challenge by the Rays — Volpe turned on right-hander Griffin Jax’s 95.9 mph sinker and hit it 357 feet to left field.
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Volpe → turn → field
It was a matter of inches as to whether a fan reached over the fence and interfered with the ball or it would have cleared the wall entirely.
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it → reach → wall
Called a home run by the umpires on the field, video review determined the fan did interfere.
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fan → call → field
The replay official scored it an RBI double for Volpe with a run scored, but the run that did not turned out to be the difference.
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that → score → run
With the air sucked out of Yankee Stadium, Spencer Jones — who singled and doubled in his first two plate appearances — struck out swinging to end the threat.
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who → suck → threat
The eighth started with Paul Goldschmidt reaching on a throwing error and finished with fellow pinch-hitter with Giancarlo Stanton striking out in just his second at-bat of the postseason.
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Stanton → start → postseason
Stanton got chances to swing the bat after strained calf muscles in each of his legs sidelined him since April 24.
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muscles → get → April
Judge was not afforded the same opportunity, left off the rosters for the AL Wild Card Series and the ALDS because of his calf injury.
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Judge → afford → injury
The Yankees hit .130 in the series and were outscored 10-5.
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Yankees → hit → series
Aaron Boone again fell short of a title in his ninth season as New York’s manager, and some fans chanted “Fire Boone!” as they streamed to the exits.
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they → fall → exits
The Aporia
