Through four innings, the New York Yankees led 5-0 and seemed destined for Game 6. Home runs from Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Jr., and Giancarlo Stanton fueled a desperate Bronx crowd.
Five unearned runs in the fifth inning later, it all fell apart. Aaron Judge missed an easy catch in center field. Anthony Volpe botched a throw to third on an attempted force. Worst of all, Gerrit Cole forgot to cover first base on a grounder to Anthony Rizzo.
Stanton’s sac fly in the sixth gave the Yankees a run back, but it wasn’t enough. Neither Tommy Kahnle nor Luke Weaver had good command in the eighth inning.