NEW YORK — “As bad as it gets.”
Those five words, uttered by right-hander Gerrit Cole roughly an hour after the New York Yankees’ season ended in catastrophic fashion, somehow undersold what had transpired.
For the first four innings of Game 5 of the World Series, the Yankees had everything working. Propelled by a wave of momentum and confidence gathered in an 11-4 rout in Game 4 to avoid being swept and stave off elimination, New York burst out of the gate in Game 5. Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr.