If you’ve watched the Yankees or baseball in general long enough, you know trailing 5-1 going into the sixth inning at Fenway Park is hardly an insurmountable deficit. Fenway is a great place to hit overall, plus it has all those weird angles and walls that lead to crazy bounces and unexpected turns. As bleak as it felt, last night’s game was not over when the Yankees were down 5-1 after five innings.
The game was over after Tommy Kahnle and Chasen Shreve conspired to allow nine runs (on three hits!) in the bottom of the sixth. Kahnle had already put the game out of reach by time Shreve entered.