At the worst possible moment of their season -- the very end -- the 2024 New York Yankees crashed in an ugly way, with mistake after mistake after mistake in Game 5 of the World Series.
Gerrit Cole had pitched brilliantly, Aaron Judge had momentarily quelled his postseason nightmare with a two-run home run and the Yankees had staked a 5-0 lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers, looking like they would become the first team in World Series history to take a 3-0 deficit to a Game 6.
But the old saying is that you can't give a great opposing lineup an extra out, and in the fifth inning of this game, the Yankees gave the Dodgers three.