Actually it’s a phenomenal heads up base running play by Hernandez. Many, many base runners would have simply turned their back to the play as the outfield play is made 99% of the time. The fact that Kiki kept his eye on the outfielder the whole time kept the inning alive. If he had not, he is easily thrown out at second probably with ease. The heads-up base running started the whole surreal inning.
@@3GOD i would say the most difficult plays take the greatest concentration and then continue that concentration for every play. But that phrase isn't as catchy.
It's the kind of thing I do regularly enough. You just don't imagine that someone like Judge, who was finally having an MVP calibre game, could also do it.
Favour? This is America's game! You must use America's spelling of favor. We don't want no socialism or words with an added "u". We want more poor people and shorter words and freedom to own super dangerous weapons.
Always good to remember is, nothing can change the fact that each team has 27 outs in 9 innings. Outs are the primary commodity. Errors essentially give the OPP extra outs. In the pros they are so consistent with regular plays we forget as observers how fundamental it is and how much mental sharpness it takes.
Modern MLB lacks fundamental base running and fielding especially compared to 1970's baseball.Sure you had some guys only hit 5-10 homers, but they were great position players.
@@commenter...3344no modern baseball lacks contact in hitting. Defense is the same. Bad base running will always happen. But you won’t be a big leaguer if the defense you play isn’t good.
I know this was about Judge but when I saw Cole point to first instead of covering the bag, I knew it was over. It's the World Series man, in an elimination game no less! The left fielder should have covered first for all I care. They deserved that loss and I'm a Yankee fan.
Great breakdown. The first time I saw this I was thinking how the heck did he get to 2nd on time!?! What a heads up base running play. Not gonna lie, not one player for the yanks would have been safe at second!
obviosly a dodgers fan? I am fan of neither. A 5 game series with one team playing sloppily is objectively a bad series. I will agree the best team won simply because the Dodgers played flawlessy and thats what champions do, but the yankees actually defeated themselves. Yankees should have been up 3-2 really. They los two games with their best pitcher Cole (Cole lost both their games! Crazy!) pitching absolutely great! That said I think the dodgers would have pervailed in the end. They had mostly great starting pitching and they would not have relied on Honeywell in game 4 so much if the series was 2-1 dodgers at that point.
Two hands actually doesn’t help you catch a line drive. Players are taught to use one hand. That’s more of a thing little kids are taught since most can’t close a glove yet
@ If the ball were at his waist, or below, then glove hand only makes sense. Given where the ball was on that play, he could have easily used his left hand in the under glove position. Really does not matter though as my Yankees lost, I so rarely see Judge commit an error, and I hate the Dodgers. Now, the long wait till spring training.
@@AntonelliBaseballyour so wrong if is other hand would of been there because the ball wasn’t really hit that hard he was there with plenty of time it would supported the back side of the mit and he would of caught it. Plus he took his eye of the ball to ck the runner. Just to over confident in MY Opinion
There was more than the eyes. Note the glove position. While he is eyeing the ball, his glove position is up and expectant to receive the ball. At the last moment, the glove position DROPS with the resultant misalignment. It was not just the eye movement, but also dropping the glove (inadvertently??) which resulted in the commencement of the Yankee implosion which ultimately blew the game and the Series.
It’s interesting that he is barely safe at second, even with the drop. He was safe because, as you point out, he had his hips and eyes prepared in case the unthinkable happened, which it did. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. Kids! Take note!
I coach softball. You can show my girls this play, and ask them what I say a million times! They will probably shout in unison, “look the ball in; look it out!”. I want them to take nothing for granted. When the ball gets in your glove, even if the catch is secured, the ball doesn’t always come to rest the same place. Sometimes it’s in the web, other times in the pocket, even others in the palm. If you reach into your glove without looking, you may not get the grip you want or need. The field doesn’t shift. You don’t have to look for the base. It is where it always is. Once you secure the ball in your throwing hand, you can then look to where you are going to throw it. I’m sure fellow fielders will be telling you where to throw it! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen players have to double clutch, because they got a poor grip. Or how many times they drop the ball altogether, because they took their eyes off of it prematurely.
Good point. I guess it is human nature to look at the base and the runner to see how much time you got left, to feel like your zoning in on the target of your throw. I think i was always very conscious of seeing the ball in, but not so much of seeing it out. And i'd often grip the ball wrong. But i never felt i had the time those pros had, as my arm wasn't as strong...
Many fly balls were caught out of the pocket and towards the heel of the glove that night. Not sure why, but noticed it before the Judge miss. My biggest gripe is the Cole lack of covering first base. I do attribute that to him being gassed by that point and that is partially due to bad coaching. I saw Cole, following a foul ball deep in the inning, look to the dugout with desperation in his face. Pitching at that level of stress for so long of an inning takes its' toll. You could see he was looking for the pitching coach to come out and give him a breather. He needed it. He didn't get that. Failures at so many levels and that costs games.
You are right! If Hernandez gets thrown out at second it could have changed the course of the inning. Any of us who play baseball know his paying attention to Judge and hustling to second was a huge deal!!!!
In my opinion the biggest mistake was Rizzo not tagging first base. That is little league basics both the pitcher and first basement need to run towards first base for the touch of the bag.
See Mike's breakdown of that play. The spin of the ball was super-weird (although normal when it's hit off the end of the bat - see the YT videos where the ball starts foul and then rolls fair) and Rizzo got reasonably fooled. Cole not covering was disgraceful, though.
Judge committed ZERO errors this year until that play, with his arm he's doubled up a lot of runners just that same way. And that hindsight for the armchair athlete is some powerful stuff.
Line drive hit right at you is the hardest to Judge (no pun intended), but he obviously was on it and flubbed it taking his eye off it, which was dumb, because he would be unlikely to double him up anyway. Pitcher not covering first was really awful later on. In college, day 1 every season, that was the first thing we worked on since we were stuck indoors from the cold weather. We did it til we were sick of it and it was 2nd nature. Inexcusable in the Majors, no less in a WS. HIs team let him down that inning, but then he screwed himself over further giving them 6 outs. I hate the Yankees, so I enjoyed it.
@@cadaverdog1424yes, exactly. I’ll venture a guess that you think that umpires are supposed to be flawless unlike the players who look away for a second but keep their starting job because MOST OF THE TIME, they nail it. [insert whatever emoticon you like best]
@@cadaverdog1424the whole point of this series of videos is to dissect instances of people not doing their jobs properly. So making the distinction with someone who has done his job correctly is valid. Lighten up, Francis.
Actually, what happened is probably this: in football they have a saying, "he ran with the ball before he caught it," meaning, he was thinking way ahead of himself and it caused him to drop an easy pass. Judge had the ball in his sights all the way, until the very last moment when he was thinking about how and where he was going to whip the ball to the infield, and he never caught the ball -- he didn't drop it because it was never in his mit -- because he was thinking ahead of himself at the wrong moment. In a sense he was overconfident.
If ball players were paid an average salary just to survive and only paid big money for making it to and winning playoff games and World Series. We would be watching entirely different games.
The Kiké element here is huge, and it rarely gets mentioned. This inning wasn't JUST the Yanks blowing it. It was the Dodgers being a great team AS the Yanks were blowing it. Most teams in the league would not have capitalized the way the Dodgers did. Kiké's hustle to 3rd forced the rushed throw there as well, leading to the Volpe/Chisholm error. And Mookie's hustle to 1st on what looked like an easy out was key! 90 percent of the baserunners in the league would have jogged on that play.
The last time I saw an inning with defense this bad was the bottom of the 7th, Texas at Toronto when the Rangers made the same number of errors and got eliminated.
Hogwash. These players make far too much money for the games to be fixed and nobody in their right mind would try to fix a World Series game.b way too much scrutiny going on. The smart guys would look to fix a low vis game in mid-July to make betting money. And, at this point in the season, these players are playing pride and bragging rights.
I think you seriously underestimate the Yankees' ability to blow it in the playoffs. Chokepocalypse. Collapse-a-rama. It's practically tradition for the Bronx Bombers at this point!
For starters, I've loathed the Yankees for decades and always pull for their opponent (Reds fan here). That said, I feel for Judge and have total respect for him because he's got class and is going to the HOF. Other than last night, and I know that's the point, he makes that catch 100 times out of 100 chances. He just happened to screw up in the biggest game and the biggest stage of his career. No excuse for his error. BUT...if either Volpe makes his play or Cole covers first, the inning is over and it's still 5-0. In my book Cole's brain-lock is a much bigger screwup than Judge's drop.
Umm… Kiki was already back to the cutout retreating to first base. Whether he saw Judge drop it out of corner of eye, he had assistance from 1st base coach too. But he was pretty far back to the base, convinced it would be caught the other 99.99% you mention. He probably had close to cover about 25 yards very quickly. Check out where he is at the 3:17 mark. He may have been halfway when he started, but he had a long way to get to second and beat the force.
Judge was looking to throw the ball before he caught it. That’s obvious. Horrendous error in that circumstance, especially as he was running in toward the infield. Runners were not going to go anywhere. The error at third was a botch based on nervousness that emanated from Judge’s bad judgment, but it did not lead to an avalanche of runs. The non-play at first? In the wake of the other two errors, that was despicable. Pitcher should have been covering as soon as the ball was hit there. He didn’t make the effort at all. First baseman? He had the ball, and had a mere half the distance to the bag as the runner. Yet he jogged to the bag, and didn’t arrive in time. How, when a chance to win a World Series is about to slip from their grasp, does neither player bother to hustle? Bewildering and disturbing.
I have a friend who coached high school baseball for 40 years. He said the less experienced the players are, the team who makes the fewest mistakes will win 99% of the time. I guess this goes for the big boys too.
Once again, it's the little things that can turn into big things. Kiki could have easily assumed Judge makes the catch and just turns around to head back to first and never sees the drop. As it was, it was a pretty close play at second that almost forced him out. Then of course later Betts' hustle down the first base line when Cole doesn't cover first another little thing made big.
I played shortstop in high school and had a very good coach. he use to tell me that I could be a great shortstop, if only I would stop thinking when making a play. he told me to just react and let my instincts take over. I could make the plays on the toughest and hardest hit balls, but sometimes, it was the easy, slow hit balls, that I had a hard time with. it was because I had to much time to think about the play, instead of just reacting and not thinking about it. I think major League players, sometimes have the same problems.
Aaron Judge's miscue was because he didn't secure the ball before looking for the next out (doubling up the runner at 1st). Rizzo made sure to take extra care to secure the reverse-spinning ball causing him to not be able to run to 1st in time. Cole's miscue was making an assumption that turned out not to be true.
Yeah, I was going to say that's something middle a infielder knows well. Basketball and football players as well. How many times have we seen that happen? I've dropped balls that I was camping under and caught with two hands? The ones that get me upset is when I am tracking a fly ball and I know the fence is coming. Take my eyes off for a second and drop the ball. My moto with fences became just ignore them and crash the fence. If you want a high success rate with the fence you just have to not care if you get hurt and become a fence crasher. Lol. The only time I really looked at a fence was if I was going to run up the wall and try to leap up and Rob a home run. Had a few tricks. One was turning my back to the ball, running to a spot, then finding it again. Then there was selling out on a pop up vs pulling up on a line drive. You can dive for a pop up and it ain't going anywhere. Where as line drive you better have a beat on it if you are going to commit.
hustle to the catch so that its higher and easier to catch - avoid backhanding a tailing line drive at/below chest - which is slightly tougher than catching eye level or higher where your glove is wide open, u can take eyes off if using two hands and looking up at ball even :/
@@kenbrickman4412 He wasn't worried about him tagging up. He was checking to see if he could double him off. But that was just dumb too. Take the 1 out and a runner on 1st with a 5 run lead. Don't even TRY to double him up where the throw could get away.
I watch the box score over here in the philippines as i do not have streaming. I'm just now watching the top of the fifth inning 24 hours later. Judge, Volpe, and Cole? Here's some advice. Catch the ball. Throw the ball. Cover first base. Inning over. You have a little bit of time on your hands so think about this advice. Then think about what you did. Don't do it again. Believe me when i tell you. It hurts us more than it hurts you.
Catch the ball thro to 2nd. You know that before the play, but your in the WS & the tendency is to get ahead of your self. You try to trim time to make sure, even tho you don't have to. You over do it. The play is so easy you can do it in your sleep, so you shift your mind to the next step & kerplunk, it's over, but the shock of such a good outfielder blowing it puts your team mates on their heals as well, so they lose a second of concentration & it domino's. We see this with the bat alot. One guys crushes a Homer. The pitcher thinks I'm not gonna let that happen again & he rushes his process, loses a tinge of focus, trys too hard to close the door & kerplunk another Homer. This is something that should be reminded before the start of play when playing in a WS. We're taught many things, but mistakes are born from tendencies under pressure, so remember one thing at a time. The rest is muscle memory.
He took his eye off the ball looking ahead to what was going on in front of him. It happens in all sports. A slight loss in concentration is all it takes.
Every year in every sport it is the same thing. One team wins; the other loses. Then we are assaulted with an endless stream of coulda, shoulda, woulda. Point fingers: try to assign “blame”: we was robbed. But we never hear excuses from the winning team.
I was almost directly behind Judge at that point. The ball was hit right at him & knuckled a little bit as it had very little spin. It seemed like that at the last micro second it dipped down a little bit, so I guess that & the fact that he definitely took his eyes away from the play caused him to miss it, and yes if he used 2 hands he catches that ball & the Yanks are headed to LaLa land. Of course they till had an incredibly daunting task ahead of them, but they had a chance. This whole series was affected by Boone’s ridiculously poor decision in game 1 of using Nestor Cortes instead of Hill, thus very conceivably were headed to LA up 3-2. We waited 15 years for this nightmare so sad & upsetting. Let’s go Yanks-sign Soto & on to greener pastures⚾️👍🏼⚾️👍🏼⚾️👍🏼⚾️
Why is so much of Judge's hand sticking out of the bottom of the glove? By not having his hand deeper into the glove (especially an outfielder's), it looks like his fingers aren't reaching far enough in to be able to control the top of it, particularly the webbing. That's where the ball hit the glove, and aside from taking his eyes off the ball it looks like he couldn't control closing the top of the glove.
The yankees have a terrible defense. Judge to me isnt a good enough fielder to play center. People defend it by saying he doesnt commit a lot of errors but neither did Derek Jeter and we now see people say Jeter was terrible at ss. Both players make the play when the ball comes to them but neither has range. For years players who didnt commit errors were seen as the better defender instead of the guys who had more range and stole hits from players. Every time i watch a yankees game im like "Why is he playing center field"? hes the only player ive ever watched where ive said this to myself. Even when Mike Piazza played catcher i didnt ask why he was playing catcher. Judge is an injury prone big guy who isnt fast so why play him at a position that needs a player with lots of range and mobility?
The main reason the Yankees named Judge as captain was that it was an extra incentive for him to stay with them instead of signing with the Giants. He may be their captain, but he's not a leader
I would like say that it is not as easy as it looks. Having a stud pitcher throwing a ball at a high velocity, with a high spin rate, and major league caliber hitter ripping a line drive with all kinds spin. I seen guys get eaten by some of seemingly easiest plays. Little bloops of the end of the bat, slicing line drives that are basically a 250' curve ball breaking a good 40'-50', back spin line drives that just keep sailing in the wind. I mean yeah a determined and experienced player should make the play. Stuff happens. People not perfect. 94%-97%. Basically 1/20 to 1/33 is going to get botched. I've been blinded by the sun with the bases loaded. Camped under balls, caught it two hands and it still pops out. But I have also made Willie Mays catches on fields with no outfield fences. Just a part of the game.
I hate to pin this on Volpe, but after Judge dropped the ball, Volpe HAD to make a clean throw. Up to the point before the ball was hit to Judge, there wasn't a lot of pressure on the Yankees. The Dodgers had a man on first but Cole was cruising with a 5 run lead. The ball hit to Judge was a low pressure play and he just tanked it. At that point, the stuff got real - they Yankees *had* to get an out and the ground ball to Volpe should have been an easy play at third. Too bad he spiked it into the ground from 20' away.
That was a testament to the hustle by the runner to cause Volpe to hurry his throw. I thought this was the least egregious of the 3 errors. You can understand this and the squibbler to first. Judge dropping that can of corn was mind blowing...
I’m sure he feels just sick about it. If he reads this he can be reminded of Garry Maddox in the ‘78 NLCS against of all teams LA. And Maddox was an outstanding centerfielder. It’s dreadful when it happens in a situation like this but he’ll redeem himself.
Actually it’s a phenomenal heads up base running play by Hernandez. Many, many base runners would have simply turned their back to the play as the outfield play is made 99% of the time. The fact that Kiki kept his eye on the outfielder the whole time kept the inning alive. If he had not, he is easily thrown out at second probably with ease. The heads-up base running started the whole surreal inning.
That's what the video JUST said...thanks ??🤔
For the $275 MILLION/year he's paid, Hernandez BETTER run the bases correctly
Kikay reminds me of mango from snl
@@redyullayulla1055You're right. They should have paid Judge more. Maybe put some dollar signs on the ball even. 🤣
@@redyullayulla1055he makes nowhere near that.
My son's coach always says, "The easiest plays take the greatest concentration." This is a perfect example of that.
Right on. Judge took the catch fir granted, not focusing on the catch but on the runner.
@@3GOD i would say the most difficult plays take the greatest concentration and then continue that concentration for every play. But that phrase isn't as catchy.
@@SteveL-v9u He doesn't feel so bad after the next two hold my beers.
Bill Buckner would agree.
It's the kind of thing I do regularly enough. You just don't imagine that someone like Judge, who was finally having an MVP calibre game, could also do it.
It's kinda cool to see how important defense is, it's often overlooked in favour of just pitcher vs batter
Favour? This is America's game! You must use America's spelling of favor. We don't want no socialism or words with an added "u". We want more poor people and shorter words and freedom to own super dangerous weapons.
Always good to remember is, nothing can change the fact that each team has 27 outs in 9 innings. Outs are the primary commodity. Errors essentially give the OPP extra outs. In the pros they are so consistent with regular plays we forget as observers how fundamental it is and how much mental sharpness it takes.
Modern MLB lacks fundamental base running and fielding especially compared to 1970's baseball.Sure you had some guys only hit 5-10 homers, but they were great position players.
Defense is not overlooked! Wtf are you talking about
@@commenter...3344no modern baseball lacks contact in hitting. Defense is the same. Bad base running will always happen. But you won’t be a big leaguer if the defense you play isn’t good.
The drop that ended our season, thank you Captain.
What was worse, his hitting or fielding. How slow can Stanton run?
@FuzzyWuzzyHair Comedy of errors, who's on first? Another almost error, tagging up from first base on Stanton's sac fly.
The Yankees helped me feel better about my men’s league softball team. During the fifth I was thinking, “We play like pros!”
I know this was about Judge but when I saw Cole point to first instead of covering the bag, I knew it was over. It's the World Series man, in an elimination game no less! The left fielder should have covered first for all I care. They deserved that loss and I'm a Yankee fan.
Yeah, they clearly spit the bit on this game.
@@ohger1 gave it away to the sports betting houses.
I knew it was over when Judge dropped that ball.
The play at first was worse for sure. Lack of effort by two players. Even the Yankees can't win without fundamentals.
@@pocklecodyup he should have just sprinted to the bag rather then look for the pitcher. Slow brain and even slower legs.
Great breakdown. The first time I saw this I was thinking how the heck did he get to 2nd on time!?! What a heads up base running play. Not gonna lie, not one player for the yanks would have been safe at second!
Great breakdown.
It's all these little plays that won the WS for the Dodgers. Well coached team
Had nothing to do with coaching
The high up view is the best!
ONLY after you’ve SEEN the close-ups.
Good breakdown and what a great World Series. Some great games and the best team came out on top.
obviosly a dodgers fan? I am fan of neither. A 5 game series with one team playing sloppily is objectively a bad series. I will agree the best team won simply because the Dodgers played flawlessy and thats what champions do, but the yankees actually defeated themselves. Yankees should have been up 3-2 really. They los two games with their best pitcher Cole (Cole lost both their games! Crazy!) pitching absolutely great! That said I think the dodgers would have pervailed in the end. They had mostly great starting pitching and they would not have relied on Honeywell in game 4 so much if the series was 2-1 dodgers at that point.
Great replay and analysis ,,, for one who pulled the plug at 5-0 to get some extra sleep for Game 6 ...
I know, it is a different era, but would it kill a major league ball player to use two hands?
Two hands actually doesn’t help you catch a line drive. Players are taught to use one hand. That’s more of a thing little kids are taught since most can’t close a glove yet
@ If the ball were at his waist, or below, then glove hand only makes sense. Given where the ball was on that play, he could have easily used his left hand in the under glove position. Really does not matter though as my Yankees lost, I so rarely see Judge commit an error, and I hate the Dodgers. Now, the long wait till spring training.
@@AntonelliBaseballyour so wrong if is other hand would of been there because the ball wasn’t really hit that hard he was there with plenty of time it would supported the back side of the mit and he would of caught it. Plus he took his eye of the ball to ck the runner. Just to over confident in MY Opinion
@@sammyweed4771 What does he know. He was only a major leaguer.
@@Mike-zf7lo yea I played ball too
Can't wait to see the breakdown of the Volpe and Cole errors next
I agree Cole was an error even though they ruled it a hit. They should keep a stat on mental errors!
I love these breakdowns.
Thanks!!
There was more than the eyes. Note the glove position. While he is eyeing the ball, his glove position is up and expectant to receive the ball. At the last moment, the glove position DROPS with the resultant misalignment. It was not just the eye movement, but also dropping the glove (inadvertently??) which resulted in the commencement of the Yankee implosion which ultimately blew the game and the Series.
It’s interesting that he is barely safe at second, even with the drop. He was safe because, as you point out, he had his hips and eyes prepared in case the unthinkable happened, which it did. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. Kids! Take note!
I coach softball. You can show my girls this play, and ask them what I say a million times! They will probably shout in unison, “look the ball in; look it out!”. I want them to take nothing for granted. When the ball gets in your glove, even if the catch is secured, the ball doesn’t always come to rest the same place. Sometimes it’s in the web, other times in the pocket, even others in the palm. If you reach into your glove without looking, you may not get the grip you want or need. The field doesn’t shift. You don’t have to look for the base. It is where it always is. Once you secure the ball in your throwing hand, you can then look to where you are going to throw it. I’m sure fellow fielders will be telling you where to throw it!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen players have to double clutch, because they got a poor grip. Or how many times they drop the ball altogether, because they took their eyes off of it prematurely.
Good point. I guess it is human nature to look at the base and the runner to see how much time you got left, to feel like your zoning in on the target of your throw. I think i was always very conscious of seeing the ball in, but not so much of seeing it out. And i'd often grip the ball wrong. But i never felt i had the time those pros had, as my arm wasn't as strong...
Many fly balls were caught out of the pocket and towards the heel of the glove that night. Not sure why, but noticed it before the Judge miss. My biggest gripe is the Cole lack of covering first base. I do attribute that to him being gassed by that point and that is partially due to bad coaching. I saw Cole, following a foul ball deep in the inning, look to the dugout with desperation in his face. Pitching at that level of stress for so long of an inning takes its' toll. You could see he was looking for the pitching coach to come out and give him a breather. He needed it. He didn't get that. Failures at so many levels and that costs games.
You are right! If Hernandez gets thrown out at second it could have changed the course of the inning. Any of us who play baseball know his paying attention to Judge and hustling to second was a huge deal!!!!
In my opinion the biggest mistake was Rizzo not tagging first base. That is little league basics both the pitcher and first basement need to run towards first base for the touch of the bag.
See Mike's breakdown of that play. The spin of the ball was super-weird (although normal when it's hit off the end of the bat - see the YT videos where the ball starts foul and then rolls fair) and Rizzo got reasonably fooled. Cole not covering was disgraceful, though.
Yankees had a tough sequence. Gut wrenching
You missed the part where the 1st base coach is pointing to go to 2. The view from 2nd to 1st it shows it much better.
As soon as this happened I said Matt's gona have a great video on this
Thanks!
Judge committed ZERO errors this year until that play, with his arm he's doubled up a lot of runners just that same way. And that hindsight for the armchair athlete is some powerful stuff.
Line drive hit right at you is the hardest to Judge (no pun intended), but he obviously was on it and flubbed it taking his eye off it, which was dumb, because he would be unlikely to double him up anyway. Pitcher not covering first was really awful later on. In college, day 1 every season, that was the first thing we worked on since we were stuck indoors from the cold weather. We did it til we were sick of it and it was 2nd nature. Inexcusable in the Majors, no less in a WS. HIs team let him down that inning, but then he screwed himself over further giving them 6 outs. I hate the Yankees, so I enjoyed it.
Thanks for the breakdown Anton
Get a life!!!!
Love your analyzes always!
And they've invited Aaron Judge to Time Square for NYE....he's got some experience dropping a ball in front of all of New York
Can we give a shout-out to those groundskeepers….look at those beautiful lines!
That a captain?
The second base umpire didn't take that play for granted. He went around the shortstop to have an angle to make a call on the force play at his base.
You mean he did his job?😂
@@cadaverdog1424yes, exactly. I’ll venture a guess that you think that umpires are supposed to be flawless unlike the players who look away for a second but keep their starting job because MOST OF THE TIME, they nail it. [insert whatever emoticon you like best]
@@cadaverdog1424the whole point of this series of videos is to dissect instances of people not doing their jobs properly. So making the distinction with someone who has done his job correctly is valid. Lighten up, Francis.
Actually, what happened is probably this: in football they have a saying, "he ran with the ball before he caught it," meaning, he was thinking way ahead of himself and it caused him to drop an easy pass. Judge had the ball in his sights all the way, until the very last moment when he was thinking about how and where he was going to whip the ball to the infield, and he never caught the ball -- he didn't drop it because it was never in his mit -- because he was thinking ahead of himself at the wrong moment. In a sense he was overconfident.
If ball players were paid an average salary just to survive and only paid big money for making it to and winning playoff games and World Series. We would be watching entirely different games.
The Kiké element here is huge, and it rarely gets mentioned. This inning wasn't JUST the Yanks blowing it. It was the Dodgers being a great team AS the Yanks were blowing it. Most teams in the league would not have capitalized the way the Dodgers did.
Kiké's hustle to 3rd forced the rushed throw there as well, leading to the Volpe/Chisholm error. And Mookie's hustle to 1st on what looked like an easy out was key! 90 percent of the baserunners in the league would have jogged on that play.
The last time I saw an inning with defense this bad was the bottom of the 7th, Texas at Toronto when the Rangers made the same number of errors and got eliminated.
fixed!!! someone had money on that game
Could be. Was considering that angle also.
Agree. Judge needs to supplement his $40,000,000 salary. He can barely get by on that.
Hogwash. These players make far too much money for the games to be fixed and nobody in their right mind would try to fix a World Series game.b way too much scrutiny going on. The smart guys would look to fix a low vis game in mid-July to make betting money. And, at this point in the season, these players are playing pride and bragging rights.
I think you seriously underestimate the Yankees' ability to blow it in the playoffs. Chokepocalypse. Collapse-a-rama. It's practically tradition for the Bronx Bombers at this point!
For starters, I've loathed the Yankees for decades and always pull for their opponent (Reds fan here). That said, I feel for Judge and have total respect for him because he's got class and is going to the HOF. Other than last night, and I know that's the point, he makes that catch 100 times out of 100 chances. He just happened to screw up in the biggest game and the biggest stage of his career. No excuse for his error. BUT...if either Volpe makes his play or Cole covers first, the inning is over and it's still 5-0. In my book Cole's brain-lock is a much bigger screwup than Judge's drop.
Umm… Kiki was already back to the cutout retreating to first base. Whether he saw Judge drop it out of corner of eye, he had assistance from 1st base coach too. But he was pretty far back to the base, convinced it would be caught the other 99.99% you mention. He probably had close to cover about 25 yards very quickly. Check out where he is at the 3:17 mark. He may have been halfway when he started, but he had a long way to get to second and beat the force.
It’s called choking
New Year's Eve Judge is invited to drop the ball in Times Square.
Experience counts 😊
Should be there in about an hour 🎉
Judge was looking to throw the ball before he caught it. That’s obvious. Horrendous error in that circumstance, especially as he was running in toward the infield. Runners were not going to go anywhere. The error at third was a botch based on nervousness that emanated from Judge’s bad judgment, but it did not lead to an avalanche of runs.
The non-play at first? In the wake of the other two errors, that was despicable. Pitcher should have been covering as soon as the ball was hit there. He didn’t make the effort at all. First baseman? He had the ball, and had a mere half the distance to the bag as the runner. Yet he jogged to the bag, and didn’t arrive in time. How, when a chance to win a World Series is about to slip from their grasp, does neither player bother to hustle? Bewildering and disturbing.
I have a friend who coached high school baseball for 40 years. He said the less experienced the players are, the team who makes the fewest mistakes will win 99% of the time. I guess this goes for the big boys too.
Been waiting for this one, lol. Go Dodgers!
Once again, it's the little things that can turn into big things. Kiki could have easily assumed Judge makes the catch and just turns around to head back to first and never sees the drop. As it was, it was a pretty close play at second that almost forced him out. Then of course later Betts' hustle down the first base line when Cole doesn't cover first another little thing made big.
I played shortstop in high school and had a very good coach. he use to tell me that I could be a great shortstop, if only I would stop thinking when making a play. he told me to just react and let my instincts take over. I could make the plays on the toughest and hardest hit balls, but sometimes, it was the easy, slow hit balls, that I had a hard time with. it was because I had to much time to think about the play, instead of just reacting and not thinking about it. I think major League players, sometimes have the same problems.
I'm surprised how far towards second base Chisholm is. Especially with Edman up.
Good baseball is hard but great baseball is smart.
He took his eye off the ball. Baseball 101.
Aaron Judge's miscue was because he didn't secure the ball before looking for the next out (doubling up the runner at 1st). Rizzo made sure to take extra care to secure the reverse-spinning ball causing him to not be able to run to 1st in time. Cole's miscue was making an assumption that turned out not to be true.
You know what happens when you assume. Right ?
The difference between a Jeter and a Judge. A winner and a look gooder. A guy like Judge already has his thoughts on vacation
Yeah, I was going to say that's something middle a infielder knows well. Basketball and football players as well. How many times have we seen that happen? I've dropped balls that I was camping under and caught with two hands? The ones that get me upset is when I am tracking a fly ball and I know the fence is coming. Take my eyes off for a second and drop the ball. My moto with fences became just ignore them and crash the fence. If you want a high success rate with the fence you just have to not care if you get hurt and become a fence crasher. Lol. The only time I really looked at a fence was if I was going to run up the wall and try to leap up and Rob a home run. Had a few tricks. One was turning my back to the ball, running to a spot, then finding it again. Then there was selling out on a pop up vs pulling up on a line drive. You can dive for a pop up and it ain't going anywhere. Where as line drive you better have a beat on it if you are going to commit.
hustle to the catch so that its higher and easier to catch - avoid backhanding a tailing line drive at/below chest - which is slightly tougher than catching eye level or higher where your glove is wide open, u can take eyes off if using two hands and looking up at ball even :/
That 5th inning will be the 2024 Yankees legacy and will never go away.
Am I wrong that Judge didnt catch the ball, it ricochets off the end?
Ohhh Daniel son ... always keep eye on ball! That 5th inning was quite up to T-Ball standards.
I never would have guessed that a team could have put ME in a game for Aaron Judge and it would have helped them win a World Series game.
I'm 73 and I could have caught that ball...why worry about the runner, it wasn't that deep
But can you hit a 2-run HR off Flaherty in the 1st inning?
@@ZSleepingDragonZ That's why I said substituted me in. As in, as a defensive replacement
@@kenbrickman4412 He wasn't worried about him tagging up. He was checking to see if he could double him off. But that was just dumb too. Take the 1 out and a runner on 1st with a 5 run lead. Don't even TRY to double him up where the throw could get away.
I watch the box score over here in the philippines as i do not have streaming. I'm just now watching the top of the fifth inning 24 hours later. Judge, Volpe, and Cole? Here's some advice. Catch the ball. Throw the ball. Cover first base. Inning over. You have a little bit of time on your hands so think about this advice. Then think about what you did. Don't do it again. Believe me when i tell you. It hurts us more than it hurts you.
Catch the ball thro to 2nd. You know that before the play, but your in the WS & the tendency is to get ahead of your self. You try to trim time to make sure, even tho you don't have to. You over do it. The play is so easy you can do it in your sleep, so you shift your mind to the next step & kerplunk, it's over, but the shock of such a good outfielder blowing it puts your team mates on their heals as well, so they lose a second of concentration & it domino's. We see this with the bat alot. One guys crushes a Homer. The pitcher thinks I'm not gonna let that happen again & he rushes his process, loses a tinge of focus, trys too hard to close the door & kerplunk another Homer. This is something that should be reminded before the start of play when playing in a WS. We're taught many things, but mistakes are born from tendencies under pressure, so remember one thing at a time. The rest is muscle memory.
I wonder if Kiké's sudden retreat distracted Judge....
He took his eye off the ball looking ahead to what was going on in front of him. It happens in all sports. A slight loss in concentration is all it takes.
That really hurt. There is a saying, keep your eyes on the ball. He was looking at the runners.
Definitely a clanker
“Mistake after mistake” translates to CHOAKING
It was an easy, simple play. Making 50 mil/year, in the World Series, there is no excuse. He can hit 700 HRs but he needs to win a WSC for redemption.
Every year in every sport it is the same thing. One team wins; the other loses. Then we are assaulted with an endless stream of coulda, shoulda, woulda. Point fingers: try to assign “blame”: we was robbed. But we never hear excuses from the winning team.
I was almost directly behind Judge at that point. The ball was hit right at him & knuckled a little bit as it had very little spin. It seemed like that at the last micro second it dipped down a little bit, so I guess that & the fact that he definitely took his eyes away from the play caused him to miss it, and yes if he used 2 hands he catches that ball & the Yanks are headed to LaLa land. Of course they till had an incredibly daunting task ahead of them, but they had a chance. This whole series was affected by Boone’s ridiculously poor decision in game 1 of using Nestor Cortes instead of Hill, thus very conceivably were headed to LA up 3-2.
We waited 15 years for this nightmare so sad & upsetting. Let’s go Yanks-sign Soto & on to greener pastures⚾️👍🏼⚾️👍🏼⚾️👍🏼⚾️
keep you eye on the ball is the first thing you learn.
Not a fan of either team, but was rooting for the Yankees just so we got one more game this season!
Same as when it happens in the NFL. Took their eye off the ball.
Same thing in women’s curling😂
Best thing I've ever seen!
The last time the Yankees were a credible team in post season ... historic footage. The moment it all went bad.
Why is so much of Judge's hand sticking out of the bottom of the glove? By not having his hand deeper into the glove (especially an outfielder's), it looks like his fingers aren't reaching far enough in to be able to control the top of it, particularly the webbing. That's where the ball hit the glove, and aside from taking his eyes off the ball it looks like he couldn't control closing the top of the glove.
Yea this started it but Cole not covering first is what what really started the onslaught.
Hilarious to see the Yankees lose!😂 They are never good enough. They shouldn’t even be in the WS.
The yankees have a terrible defense. Judge to me isnt a good enough fielder to play center. People defend it by saying he doesnt commit a lot of errors but neither did Derek Jeter and we now see people say Jeter was terrible at ss. Both players make the play when the ball comes to them but neither has range. For years players who didnt commit errors were seen as the better defender instead of the guys who had more range and stole hits from players. Every time i watch a yankees game im like "Why is he playing center field"? hes the only player ive ever watched where ive said this to myself. Even when Mike Piazza played catcher i didnt ask why he was playing catcher. Judge is an injury prone big guy who isnt fast so why play him at a position that needs a player with lots of range and mobility?
Like any receiver in football, you gotta secure the ball before you do anything else!
The most impressive lack of fundamentals money can buy.
I thought this Aaron Judge guy was supposed to be the best baseball player in the world. Where's the heart and motivation?
The main reason the Yankees named Judge as captain was that it was an extra incentive for him to stay with them instead of signing with the Giants.
He may be their captain, but he's not a leader
I would like say that it is not as easy as it looks. Having a stud pitcher throwing a ball at a high velocity, with a high spin rate, and major league caliber hitter ripping a line drive with all kinds spin. I seen guys get eaten by some of seemingly easiest plays. Little bloops of the end of the bat, slicing line drives that are basically a 250' curve ball breaking a good 40'-50', back spin line drives that just keep sailing in the wind. I mean yeah a determined and experienced player should make the play. Stuff happens. People not perfect. 94%-97%. Basically 1/20 to 1/33 is going to get botched. I've been blinded by the sun with the bases loaded. Camped under balls, caught it two hands and it still pops out. But I have also made Willie Mays catches on fields with no outfield fences. Just a part of the game.
He took his eyes off the ball in order to peek at the runner. You're taught in Little League to look the ball into your glove.
Why is no one talking about the two run double later in the inning Judge should have gotten to?
The catch probability on it was like 5%. Prime Kiermaier might get to it, but most CFs aren’t.
Judge missed an opportunity in the 8th to hold down a runner from tagging to third which would eventually be the winning run. Costly.
May have been a phycological/over confidence issue with Judge as well after a homer and that catch on the wall?
Who's da BUMS now!
As soon as Judge dropped that ball I knew the Yankees were done.
I hate to pin this on Volpe, but after Judge dropped the ball, Volpe HAD to make a clean throw. Up to the point before the ball was hit to Judge, there wasn't a lot of pressure on the Yankees. The Dodgers had a man on first but Cole was cruising with a 5 run lead. The ball hit to Judge was a low pressure play and he just tanked it. At that point, the stuff got real - they Yankees *had* to get an out and the ground ball to Volpe should have been an easy play at third. Too bad he spiked it into the ground from 20' away.
All true, but if Judge had made the catch (which any little leaguer could’ve made), Volpe wouldn’t have had to throw out Kike at all.✌️❤️🇨🇦
That was a testament to the hustle by the runner to cause Volpe to hurry his throw. I thought this was the least egregious of the 3 errors. You can understand this and the squibbler to first. Judge dropping that can of corn was mind blowing...
Great Vid Dou the fundamentals of baseball is the chit and cha 🤣🙃bang in a nutshell
It doesn't matter if you hit 100 homers in the regular season, if you can't hit in October/November, well you know
Routine catch so he took his eyes off the ball
Why in the hell was Jugghead worried about the guy on 1st😂
I’m sure he feels just sick about it. If he reads this he can be reminded of Garry Maddox in the ‘78 NLCS against of all teams LA. And Maddox was an outstanding centerfielder. It’s dreadful when it happens in a situation like this but he’ll redeem himself.
That had to be embarrassing for Judge to drop that ball.
Kiki force the error!
It's called using two hands!!
That’s what happens when you nonchalantly take a catch for granted. Also, couldn’t have happened to a better team. 😊
My Little League coach would have been screaming at you for NOT using two hands to catch the ball. Screaming at you, and sit you on the bench.
Wow. Kiki!
I'm still watch the World Series 😂😂😂
Judge May never recover from this. Mark my words.