As a Dodger fan, I was more nervous vs the San Diego Padres because the Padres can pitch, hit, and play good defense. They even got a 2-1 lead vs the Dodgers. The only time the Dodgers lost two games in a row this year in the postseason. Took some amazing pitching by the Dodger bullpen to shut them out. Buehler and Yamamoto were fantastic too. Mets gave them a fight. I mean the Mets legit blew out the Dodgers twice in that series, but the Dodgers offense was on fire that series, completely dominated the games they won. If you ask me, game 1 was a toss up that the Dodgers won, but they dominated games 2 and 3 without a doubt. Game 4 they literally just punted. They didn't use a single regular or best arm in that game. They literally used the backend guys who pitched in blow outs. Game 5 the Yanks blew it in the 5th, but they still got the lead back, but couldn't hold it and Dodgers did the little things to win that game and that series. Honestly I just think the Dodgers were just way better in parts the Yanks were not which is why they soundly won 4-1 this series.
You are right. The collapse of the 5th inning only tied the game up and Yankees took the lead after that and had 4 innings to win the game. Now if it happened in the 9th and actually were down a run after I could see that being a big collapse
Totally agree. I’m seeing a LOT of ridiculous claims about Volpe’s throw. Things like, “Volpe blows a ROUTINE play” please. There was nothing routine about that. Hernandez got a great jump, off balance throw, had to get rid of it quickly, etc that was a tough play. I think because it happened in between Judge and Cole’s errors, it’s blindly labeled “catastrophic” as well.
They had a 96% chance to win the game. Also they left the 5th most runners left on base in World Series history. They allowed the first team to ever come back down by 5 runs. ⬆️5️⃣ will be the biggest collapse in baseball history. Hard to see that in little league.
Absolutely. NYY lost two leads in Gm 5 alone, and lost the Series 4gms-to-1. The notion that 5th inning cost them the Series is bizarre. The Dodgers still had to come up with timely hits, and did. Also, Kiké & Mookie’s aggression on the bases helped force those errors. No, the Dodgers outclassed their opponent in all departments and earned every bit of that championship. Congrats to them, much deserved.
Been seeing a lot of this too.. you can't give up the lead with 6 more outs to go if you want to be a championship team despite what happened 4 innings ago.
Lost in all the Game 5 meltdown was Boone just chewing his sunflower seeds. How about go have a mound visit and calm the team down after that botched play at first base? He needs to be called out more for that.
The Dodgers hit .206 during the World Series while the Yankees .212. So; with some obvious exceptions, overall the pitchers on both teams did what they were supposed to do. With the exception of game 4, all of the games were close and could have gone either way. We all know what the difference was. The Dodgers executed on both defense and the base paths and the Yankees didn't. And it wasn't just in that 5th inning, but that inning was special, and not in a good way for the Yankees. The Yankees collapse wasn't the greatest in a series of seven games, but it was the greatest show of ineptitude in a single inning of a World Series game, by a championship caliber team; in terms of raw talent, that I have ever seen, leading them to lose a game that looked like it was in the bag. I think the same can be said by most viewers. The ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs in 1986 was caused by a manager who failed to make a defensive replacement for a 36 year-old player with bad knees. Gerrit Cole and Aaron Judge don't have that excuse. It doesn't matter that we don't know if Cole could have beaten Mookie Betts to first base, he didn't even try. That is something you don't see everyday from an major league pitcher, especially in a World Series game. The throw that Anthony Volpe made to third base was a difficult throw. It wasn't as mind numbingly stupid as the first two mistakes I mentioned. Kike Hernandez hook slide into third didn't make it any easier. Unfortunately, the bottom line for Volpe is, that is his job, to make difficult plays. A team's shortstop fields more balls than any other player on the team. In the World Series, you want excellence in that position and situation, not; "well, that was a tough throw to make." Plus, you want your third basemen to be able to field a difficult throw from the shortstop. It was far from the worst mistake I've ever seen in a baseball game, but it was just one more lackluster play that helped set up the Dodgers comeback. I suppose some total baseball nerd might dig through the records and find that in; let's say 1913, there was a World Series team that made three or four errors in an innings that cost them the game, but I don't think we've seen anything like the 5th inning Yankees follies in living memory.
Your perspective is truly refreshing. I'm a casual fan, so I suspected the "5th Inning Collapse" was hyperbole, but it's good to get confirmation. I was just surprised that the errors by Judge, Volpe and Rizzo (or Cole) happened in (close) succession. To err is human....just surprised to be reminded that even professional athlete$ are human too - even on the biggest stage. #Thanks
No team in the ALCS had ever been down 3-0 until the Red Sox did against the Yankees in 2004. So don’t tell me it ain’t gonna happen. Odds low but it’s possible. The play at third could have and should have been an out. Chisolm should have set up on the outfield side of third in case Volpe should decide to throw there for the out. That’s the way I was taught to clear the runner. So I agree it wasn’t the greatest collapse but both. But the play at third and Cole failure to cover first should have been outs. Both were misplayed. Could Mookie have beat Cole? With the route Cole took, maybe. But Cole didn’t take the route he should have. Judge’s error definitely should have been an out. He simply took his eyes off the ball instead of watching it into the glove. So you’re right, this wasn’t the biggest collapse the Yankees ever had, but don’t blow smoke and make excuses for the plays at third and first.
The Wankees collapsed because the Dodgers picked them apart and exploited their weakness. The Dodgers made mistakes, too, but they recovered and pressed on. The real story here is the Dodger comeback, but it’s being eclipsed Yankee self-absorption.
2:44 "Betts has tremendous speed" It's not 2018 anymore Per Baseball Savant, he ranks 396th out of 566 players in sprint speed - slightly *below* average.
They still would have lost the series! Dodgers without question the better team even with four starting pitchers missing from the series. Would have been a sweep otherwise!
This is big time cope. The five-run comeback was the largest in a World Series-clinching win. Regardless of whether or not this was a clinching game for the Yankees, it was a clincher for the Dodgers. This will be remembered as one of the biggest choke jobs in MLB history and all your screaming into the void about "hyperbole" and "no guarantees" will not change that. But thank you for reminding me of all the other choke jobs by the Yankees over the years! LMOA
In what other World Series game has a team given up 5 unearned runs when they had a 5 run lead? That's why it was so bad. Collapse for the series? No. Collapse for that single game? Absolutely. To think otherwise is asinine.
Collapse or choke it doesn’t matter! Dodgers gave away game four with bullpen game otherwise with the four starting pitchers unavailable for game four would have Been a sweep!🧹
This was their best chance to beat the Dodgers! Next year with four starters coming back, it’s a wrap! If Yankees show up next year Dodgers will sweep their ass!
1,000% Agree...Yankees "fans" are the most ridiculous in ALL of sports BY FAR. Start with the "fire Boone, fire Cashman and force Hal to sell" mantra that the MAJORITY of NYY "fans" continually espose. Boone has the second best winning % of all MLB managers (.585 and second only to Dave Roberts .627) and makes the Playoffs every Year but one, Cashman has 5 WS Rings and will be enshrined in Cooperstown and Hal is the majority owner of the most profitable franchise in MLB and the most valuable in sports...The NYY were simply NOT the best Team in MLB this year and lost to the best Team. Get over it
Worst collapse is hyperbole but it was a collapse and it was bad, the difference between losing the World Series and going back to Los Angeles for a game 6. The Dodgers would have been heavy favorites to win at least one of those games, but anything can happen over two baseball games. Because of that fifth inning, the Yankees took that chance away from themselves. It might not have been as bad as those four games in 2004, but it still bad. Your take sounds like street-grade copium.
The Dodgers didn't even play much better then The Yankees. The Yankess win the world series if it wasn't for a few things. A few fielding mistakes that wouldn't have meant a thing during the season. Aaron Judge should have been Freddie Freeman. And lots of times The Yankees had the bases loaded in the series, but they didn't seem to ever get a guy home. They freakin' won that series a ton of times. But didn't. Sometimes The World Series comes down to weeks. Not seasons. And who might be a little bit better or worse that week. The Dodgers had a little bit of a better week. The Yankees had a little bit of bad week. Freakin' Weeks. It's kind of like The Dodgers played baseball Plus. The Yankees played Baseball Minus..Weeks..Thats about it. I still think The Yankees were a better team hands down. All I can say is this. Way to go Freddie Freeman...And The Dodgers, and LA, and Hollywood and all of California, doesn't hold a candle to anything in New York. Especially baseball..Look it up..lol frankny66yroldwhitekid nyfan
Why? This guy is telling the truth and you know it. The Yankees have a history of losing big games. They think that because they are the big bad Yankees teams are supposed to bow down to them. Nobody is scared of those big mouth arrogant people.
@ he dismisses the three terrible plays as if 2 of them weren’t horrible. (They were). I can understand big picture the collapse wasnt as bad as the 0-3 comeback loss to boston but no individual game loss in a world series game from that series was as bad as this loss given the number of mess ups there were in this game 5. If you go game by game tell me what world series game loss had more mental errors than this one
@@justforyou172 Well the timing was certainly bad, but the idea that a team can have 3 mishaps in an inning has happened many, many times during the course of baseball history. The better question is, what happened AFTER the two errors and the confusion to cover first base on the Mookie grounder? Well Cole still had a 4 run lead (5-1) and there were two outs. Cole proceeded to surrender the two key hits to Freeman and Hernandez that cost the Yankees the lead. I wouldn't let him off the hook for that result. Cole could've shutdown the Dodgers after the Mookie grounder and failed to do so. Also regardless of the 5-5 tie, there was still half a ballgame to play. The idea that the game was wholly decided in the 5th inning is preposterous nonsense unless you're viewing it strictly through the lens of a Yankee honk.
@@daverice7855 There are always opportunities to recover or make plays or right the ship in any collapse. This game was a collapse. Cole had thrown 21 pitches in the 5th inning at the time Mookie reached 1st. That was already the most in an inning that game for Cole. It was a very high stress inning in terms of number of pitches thrown and they were under duress with runners on with the meat of the lineup. Having the mental breakdown not to cover 1st was indicative of it. Yea he could have gotten Freeman out or Teoscar out but he's already fazed by what happened (including himself). He's thrown a lot of pitches that inning and needing to get through the best part of the lineup after those mistakes proved to be too much.
@@polarbear353This guys a moron. Making three errors to give up 5 unearned runs to blow the lead in an elimination game is the worst single game collapse in Yankees World Series history. Baldie doesn’t know what he’s talking about
Yankee fans are deluded they actin like the series was 3-3 and they needed one more to win
They only game they won was not even legit
As a Dodger fan, I was more nervous vs the San Diego Padres because the Padres can pitch, hit, and play good defense. They even got a 2-1 lead vs the Dodgers. The only time the Dodgers lost two games in a row this year in the postseason. Took some amazing pitching by the Dodger bullpen to shut them out. Buehler and Yamamoto were fantastic too. Mets gave them a fight. I mean the Mets legit blew out the Dodgers twice in that series, but the Dodgers offense was on fire that series, completely dominated the games they won. If you ask me, game 1 was a toss up that the Dodgers won, but they dominated games 2 and 3 without a doubt. Game 4 they literally just punted. They didn't use a single regular or best arm in that game. They literally used the backend guys who pitched in blow outs. Game 5 the Yanks blew it in the 5th, but they still got the lead back, but couldn't hold it and Dodgers did the little things to win that game and that series. Honestly I just think the Dodgers were just way better in parts the Yanks were not which is why they soundly won 4-1 this series.
Yankees still being praised as contenders is over-rated …Yankees over hyped…even the Mets would’ve beat up the Yankees
@@otani928 I do believe the Mets would have beaten them too, but that’s now how the format works.
Next year the Yankees will win the world series.
@@kennethtaylor2087dodgers repeat over the orioles next season in 6 games.
You are right. The collapse of the 5th inning only tied the game up and Yankees took the lead after that and had 4 innings to win the game. Now if it happened in the 9th and actually were down a run after I could see that being a big collapse
Totally agree. I’m seeing a LOT of ridiculous claims about Volpe’s throw. Things like, “Volpe blows a ROUTINE play” please. There was nothing routine about that. Hernandez got a great jump, off balance throw, had to get rid of it quickly, etc that was a tough play. I think because it happened in between Judge and Cole’s errors, it’s blindly labeled “catastrophic” as well.
They had a 96% chance to win the game. Also they left the 5th most runners left on base in World Series history. They allowed the first team to ever come back down by 5 runs. ⬆️5️⃣ will be the biggest collapse in baseball history. Hard to see that in little league.
Absolutely. NYY lost two leads in Gm 5 alone, and lost the Series 4gms-to-1. The notion that 5th inning cost them the Series is bizarre. The Dodgers still had to come up with timely hits, and did. Also, Kiké & Mookie’s aggression on the bases helped force those errors. No, the Dodgers outclassed their opponent in all departments and earned every bit of that championship. Congrats to them, much deserved.
Been seeing a lot of this too.. you can't give up the lead with 6 more outs to go if you want to be a championship team despite what happened 4 innings ago.
Lost in all the Game 5 meltdown was Boone just chewing his sunflower seeds. How about go have a mound visit and calm the team down after that botched play at first base? He needs to be called out more for that.
The Dodgers hit .206 during the World Series while the Yankees .212. So; with some obvious exceptions, overall the pitchers on both teams did what they were supposed to do. With the exception of game 4, all of the games were close and could have gone either way. We all know what the difference was. The Dodgers executed on both defense and the base paths and the Yankees didn't. And it wasn't just in that 5th inning, but that inning was special, and not in a good way for the Yankees.
The Yankees collapse wasn't the greatest in a series of seven games, but it was the greatest show of ineptitude in a single inning of a World Series game, by a championship caliber team; in terms of raw talent, that I have ever seen, leading them to lose a game that looked like it was in the bag. I think the same can be said by most viewers.
The ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs in 1986 was caused by a manager who failed to make a defensive replacement for a 36 year-old player with bad knees. Gerrit Cole and Aaron Judge don't have that excuse. It doesn't matter that we don't know if Cole could have beaten Mookie Betts to first base, he didn't even try. That is something you don't see everyday from an major league pitcher, especially in a World Series game. The throw that Anthony Volpe made to third base was a difficult throw. It wasn't as mind numbingly stupid as the first two mistakes I mentioned. Kike Hernandez hook slide into third didn't make it any easier. Unfortunately, the bottom line for Volpe is, that is his job, to make difficult plays. A team's shortstop fields more balls than any other player on the team. In the World Series, you want excellence in that position and situation, not; "well, that was a tough throw to make." Plus, you want your third basemen to be able to field a difficult throw from the shortstop. It was far from the worst mistake I've ever seen in a baseball game, but it was just one more lackluster play that helped set up the Dodgers comeback.
I suppose some total baseball nerd might dig through the records and find that in; let's say 1913, there was a World Series team that made three or four errors in an innings that cost them the game, but I don't think we've seen anything like the 5th inning Yankees follies in living memory.
Yankees one win wasn’t even a real win
@@EM-cz4rd - Cold. But lol funny.
It’s a hard cope that’s what it is.
Your perspective is truly refreshing. I'm a casual fan, so I suspected the "5th Inning Collapse" was hyperbole, but it's good to get confirmation. I was just surprised that the errors by Judge, Volpe and Rizzo (or Cole) happened in (close) succession. To err is human....just surprised to be reminded that even professional athlete$ are human too - even on the biggest stage. #Thanks
The reason fans are so pissed is that THIS IS WHO THE YANKEES ARE. They are a team that lacks in fundamentals. All year.
Dodgers gave the chokees game 4 and they still lost in 5 games.
Dan. You are making too much sense for the internet.
You’re going to break the damn thing if you don’t cease and desist immediately.
No team in the ALCS had ever been down 3-0 until the Red Sox did against the Yankees in 2004. So don’t tell me it ain’t gonna happen. Odds low but it’s possible. The play at third could have and should have been an out. Chisolm should have set up on the outfield side of third in case Volpe should decide to throw there for the out. That’s the way I was taught to clear the runner. So I agree it wasn’t the greatest collapse but both. But the play at third and Cole failure to cover first should have been outs. Both were misplayed. Could Mookie have beat Cole? With the route Cole took, maybe. But Cole didn’t take the route he should have. Judge’s error definitely should have been an out. He simply took his eyes off the ball instead of watching it into the glove. So you’re right, this wasn’t the biggest collapse the Yankees ever had, but don’t blow smoke and make excuses for the plays at third and first.
You are correct
Cole has a tendency to tire as the game goes on? 🤦♂️
True. 4-1 and the single win was a bullpen game……..a lower-tier bullpen game.
Yes. Don't change Yankees. Just keep on keeping on.
Omg face reality 🙄
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is literally embarrassing ugh
The Wankees collapsed because the Dodgers picked them apart and exploited their weakness. The Dodgers made mistakes, too, but they recovered and pressed on.
The real story here is the Dodger comeback, but it’s being eclipsed Yankee self-absorption.
How dare you call them Wankees It's the chokees. 😂 along with Choke-tober who dropped the ball on the biggest stage
Well said…100%
2:44
"Betts has tremendous speed"
It's not 2018 anymore
Per Baseball Savant, he ranks 396th out of 566 players in sprint speed - slightly *below* average.
This was worse than buckner. People always forget that wasn't an elimination game when he made that error, this was and it was 3 huge ones.
They still would have lost the series! Dodgers without question the better team even with four starting pitchers missing from the series. Would have been a sweep otherwise!
Stirring the hornets nest to get clicks and subs from stung yankee fans..🤣
This is big time cope. The five-run comeback was the largest in a World Series-clinching win. Regardless of whether or not this was a clinching game for the Yankees, it was a clincher for the Dodgers. This will be remembered as one of the biggest choke jobs in MLB history and all your screaming into the void about "hyperbole" and "no guarantees" will not change that. But thank you for reminding me of all the other choke jobs by the Yankees over the years! LMOA
In what other World Series game has a team given up 5 unearned runs when they had a 5 run lead? That's why it was so bad. Collapse for the series? No. Collapse for that single game? Absolutely. To think otherwise is asinine.
Collapse or choke it doesn’t matter! Dodgers gave away game four with bullpen game otherwise with the four starting pitchers unavailable for game four would have Been a sweep!🧹
This was their best chance to beat the Dodgers! Next year with four starters coming back, it’s a wrap! If Yankees show up next year Dodgers will sweep their ass!
1,000% Agree...Yankees "fans" are the most ridiculous in ALL of sports BY FAR. Start with the "fire Boone, fire Cashman and force Hal to sell" mantra that the MAJORITY of NYY "fans" continually espose. Boone has the second best winning % of all MLB managers (.585 and second only to Dave Roberts .627) and makes the Playoffs every Year but one, Cashman has 5 WS Rings and will be enshrined in Cooperstown and Hal is the majority owner of the most profitable franchise in MLB and the most valuable in sports...The NYY were simply NOT the best Team in MLB this year and lost to the best Team. Get over it
Truth
Worst collapse is hyperbole but it was a collapse and it was bad, the difference between losing the World Series and going back to Los Angeles for a game 6. The Dodgers would have been heavy favorites to win at least one of those games, but anything can happen over two baseball games. Because of that fifth inning, the Yankees took that chance away from themselves. It might not have been as bad as those four games in 2004, but it still bad. Your take sounds like street-grade copium.
Dude it was a collapse. Stop spinning it like it wasn't. They made boneheaded mistakes they couldn't get out of the inning until it was too late etc.
The Dodgers didn't even play much better then The Yankees. The Yankess win the world series if it wasn't for a few things. A few fielding mistakes that wouldn't have meant a thing during the season. Aaron Judge should have been Freddie Freeman. And lots of times The Yankees had the bases loaded in the series, but they didn't seem to ever get a guy home. They freakin' won that series a ton of times. But didn't. Sometimes The World Series comes down to weeks. Not seasons. And who might be a little bit better or worse that week. The Dodgers had a little bit of a better week. The Yankees had a little bit of bad week. Freakin' Weeks. It's kind of like The Dodgers played baseball Plus. The Yankees played Baseball Minus..Weeks..Thats about it. I still think The Yankees were a better team hands down. All I can say is this. Way to go Freddie Freeman...And The Dodgers, and LA, and Hollywood and all of California, doesn't hold a candle to anything in New York. Especially baseball..Look it up..lol frankny66yroldwhitekid nyfan
All I see here is a Yankee fanboy justifying the biggest collapse in baseball history. Keep crying.
This was far from our worst World Series ever. Not even close to 1976 or 1963.
They are the Tankees
Whoever Dan is, he's got to use up 15 minutes of UA-cam time.
Terrible take
Why? This guy is telling the truth and you know it. The Yankees have a history of losing big games. They think that because they are the big bad Yankees teams are supposed to bow down to them. Nobody is scared of those big mouth arrogant people.
@ he dismisses the three terrible plays as if 2 of them weren’t horrible. (They were). I can understand big picture the collapse wasnt as bad as the 0-3 comeback loss to boston but no individual game loss in a world series game from that series was as bad as this loss given the number of mess ups there were in this game 5. If you go game by game tell me what world series game loss had more mental errors than this one
@@justforyou172 Well the timing was certainly bad, but the idea that a team can have 3 mishaps in an inning has happened many, many times during the course of baseball history.
The better question is, what happened AFTER the two errors and the confusion to cover first base on the Mookie grounder? Well Cole still had a 4 run lead (5-1) and there were two outs. Cole proceeded to surrender the two key hits to Freeman and Hernandez that cost the Yankees the lead. I wouldn't let him off the hook for that result. Cole could've shutdown the Dodgers after the Mookie grounder and failed to do so.
Also regardless of the 5-5 tie, there was still half a ballgame to play. The idea that the game was wholly decided in the 5th inning is preposterous nonsense unless you're viewing it strictly through the lens of a Yankee honk.
@@daverice7855 There are always opportunities to recover or make plays or right the ship in any collapse. This game was a collapse. Cole had thrown 21 pitches in the 5th inning at the time Mookie reached 1st. That was already the most in an inning that game for Cole. It was a very high stress inning in terms of number of pitches thrown and they were under duress with runners on with the meat of the lineup. Having the mental breakdown not to cover 1st was indicative of it. Yea he could have gotten Freeman out or Teoscar out but he's already fazed by what happened (including himself). He's thrown a lot of pitches that inning and needing to get through the best part of the lineup after those mistakes proved to be too much.
@@polarbear353This guys a moron. Making three errors to give up 5 unearned runs to blow the lead in an elimination game is the worst single game collapse in Yankees World Series history. Baldie doesn’t know what he’s talking about
Thank you for your (repetitive) opinion(s)