Yankees CHOKE in Boston: 4 wild pitches in last inning; 3 blown saves. Juxtapose with 1961 series in Boston.

Brooks Kriske

Position: Pitcher

Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right

6-3, 190lb (190cm, 86kg)

Team: New York Yankees (majors)

Born: February 3, 1994 (Age: 27-170d) in Scottsdale, AZ us

The Yankees have played 95 games in 2021: 50-45. Prior to last night's incredible debacle there had been six walk off road losses:

Wednesday, Apr 14

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Thursday, Apr 29

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Friday, May 28

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Thursday, Jun 10

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Saturday, Jun 12

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There was also this incredible home loss after the Yankees had scored seven runs in the first inning off Shohei Ohtani

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Start Time: 7:05 p.m. Local

Attendance: 30,714

Venue: Yankee Stadium III

Game Duration: 3:44

Night Game, on grass

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
	Los Angeles Angels	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	11	9	0
	New York Yankees	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	9	1
WP: Mike Mayers (2-3) • LP: Lucas Luetge (2-1) • SV: Raisel Iglesias (15)

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	Ctct	StS	StL	GB	FB	LD	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	WPA	aLI	cWPA	acLI	RE24
Domingo German	3	3	3	3	3	2	1	4.50	17	72	43	21	10	12	4	7	3	0	40			-0.123	0.92	-0.06%	0.71	-1.4
Justin Wilson	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	5.65	3	10	7	4	0	3	1	1	0	0		0	0	0.036	0.47	0.02%	0.36	0.5
Luis Cessa	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	3.31	5	18	11	4	1	6	3	1	0	0		0	0	-0.012	0.66	-0.01%	0.51	-0.5
Darren O'Day, H (4)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2.70	3	13	6	3	0	3	1	1	1	0		0	0	0.049	0.64	0.02%	0.50	0.5
Jonathan Loaisiga, H (10)	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2.32	6	19	14	9	1	4	4	0	0	0		0	0	0.094	0.60	0.04%	0.47	1.0
Aroldis Chapman	0.1	1	4	4	3	0	1	3.77	5	24	10	5	1	4	1	1	0	0		0	0	-0.424	0.99	-0.20%	0.76	-3.8
Lucas Luetge, L (2-1)	0.2	3	3	3	1	2	0	3.15	6	25	14	8	3	3	0	3	3	0		0	0	-0.517	2.93	-0.24%	2.26	-2.7
Team Totals	9	9	11	11	7	9	3	11.00	45	181	105	54	16	35	14	14	7	0	40	0	0	-0.897	1.12	-0.41%	0.86	-6.3

Note Chapman: BB, ground out, BB, BB, HR  Replaced.

But last night:

New York Yankees reliever Brooks Kriske throws 4 wild pitches in 10th; Boston Red Sox rally to win espn.com/mlb

Enrique Hernandez hit a two-run double that tied the game with two outs in the ninth inning, and Boston took advantage of a record four wild pitches by Kriske in the 10th to rally past New York 5-4 on Thursday.

Kriske (1-1) allowed Boston's final two runs for a blown save, becoming the first major leaguer to throw four wild pitches in a single extra inning, according to STATS. His four wild pitches are tied for the most in any inning and for the most in a game by any pitcher this season.

All of them came on splitters that bounced.

"It was just pure execution," said Kriske, optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after the loss. "It's part of the game. I've got to do a better job." (Duh)

New York took a 4-3 lead in the 10th on a sacrifice fly by Brett Gardner that scored Tyler Wade. But Boston quickly tied it in the bottom half thanks in large part to Kriske's quartet of wild pitches. His first one moved automatic runner Rafael Devers to third base, and a second pitch in the dirt allowed him to score.

After Xander Bogaerts walked, Kriske's control issues continued. Two more wild pitches got Bogaerts to third, setting up Hunter Renfroe's game-ending sacrifice fly to right.

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Thursday, July 22, 2021

Start Time: 7:10 p.m. Local

Attendance: 34,761

Venue: Fenway Park

Game Duration: 3:48

Night Game, on grass

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
	New York Yankees	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	4	1
	Boston Red Sox	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	5	10	0
WP: Matt Barnes (5-2) • LP: Brooks Kriske (1-1)
Winning Run scored with 2 outs

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	Ctct	StS	StL	GB	FB	LD	Unk	GSc	IR	IS	WPA	aLI	cWPA	acLI	RE24
Jordan Montgomery	5.2	3	0	0	1	6	0	3.96	21	83	57	29	13	15	9	5	2	0	68			0.354	1.18	0.22%	1.24	3.1
Sal Romano, H (1)	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	5.06	3	13	8	5	1	2	2	1	0	0		1	0	0.093	2.16	0.06%	2.28	0.5
Lucas Luetge, BS (2)	0.2	3	1	0	0	0	0	3.20	5	19	12	8	2	2	4	1	0	0		0	0	-0.173	3.14	-0.11%	3.31	-0.7
Luis Cessa, H (1)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.82	3	5	4	3	1	0	3	0	0	0		0	0	0.098	1.24	0.06%	1.31	0.6
Chad Green, BS (2)	1	3	2	2	0	1	0	3.06	6	18	15	8	3	4	0	5	4	0		0	0	-0.398	3.07	-0.25%	3.23	-1.4
Brooks Kriske, BS (1), L (1-1)	0.2	0	2	1	1	1	0	10.80	3	12	6	4	2	0	0	1	1	0		0	0	-0.539	3.21	-0.34%	3.38	-0.9
Team Totals	9.2	10	5	3	2	8	0	2.79	41	150	102	57	22	23	18	13	7	0	68	1	0	-0.565	2.02	-0.35%	2.12	1.0

Note the THREE blown saves (BS). Also, Luis Cessa threw only FIVE pitches in breezing through the 8th inning but Yankee manager Aaron Boone stuck with his ill fated game plan to have Chad Green "save" the game by pitching the 9th with a lead. Aroldis Chapman had pitched the two prior days. Boone thinks that made Chapman and any of his relief pitchers too tired to pitch a third consecutive day. Mute point. Chapman would have blown it. He should be released.

Obviously, the Yankees need to fire manager Aaron Boone to prevent him from ever using Aroldis Chapman again: Mets 10, Yankees 5. Sunday, July 4, 2021

For some bizarre reason Boone decided to protect a one run lead in the seventh and last inning with disgraced and disastrous closer Aroldis Chapman. In his previous game Chapman negated the seven first inning runs the Yankees scored off Shohei Ohtani by being the primary reason the Angels scored seven runs in the 9th inning. Chapman walked three and then gave up a grand slam home run. Angels 11, Yankees 8.

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Starting pitcher Montgomery also threw a wild pitch, so the Yankees had a total of 5 WP. The Cubs had 7 WP in a 1914 game. Since then there have been 6 WP in a game 8 times, all between 1969-2017. And 34 games with 5 WP, including this Yankee game; 19 of the 34  2000-2021.

Finally, from those thrilling days of yesteryear: 60 years ago the legendary 1961 Yankees played three games in Fenway Park on July 21, 22, 23. All three were decided in the 9th inning.

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	New York Yankees	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	5	11	13	3
	Boston Red Sox	0	2	0	1	4	0	0	1	0	8	8	1
WP: Luis Arroyo (6-3) • LP: Arnold Earley (1-4)

HR: Roger Maris (36, off Bill Monbouquette, 1st inn, 0 on, 2 outs to Deep RF); Mickey Mantle (37, off Bill Monbouquette, 1st inn, 0 on, 2 outs to Deep CF); Yogi Berra (12, off Bill Monbouquette, 3rd inn, 1 on, 2 outs to Deep RF); Johnny Blanchard (10, off Mike Fornieles, 9th inn, 3 on, 2 outs to Deep RF).

9th inning: Johnny Blanchard pinch hit for Clete Boyer (3B) batting 8th

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		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
	New York Yankees	0	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	3	11	16	2
	Boston Red Sox	0	1	1	2	0	3	0	2	0	9	18	0
WP: Luis Arroyo (7-3) • LP: Gene Conley (4-9)

HR: Clete Boyer (4, off Wilbur Wood, 5th inn, 0 on, 1 out to Deep LF); Johnny Blanchard (11, off Gene Conley, 9th inn, 0 on, 2 outs to Deep RF Line).

9th inning: Johnny Blanchard pinch hit for Clete Boyer (3B) batting 8th Yes, again even though Boyer had homered in the 5th inning.

Johnny Blanchard homered in four consecutive at bats in three games over six days. Friday, July 10, 2015

Gene Conley  (6'8") also played in the NBA, including for the Boston Celtics in the 1960-1961 season:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/conlege01.html

Conley played five minutes in the fifth and last game of the NBA finals that season: 

St. Louis Hawks at Boston Celtics Box Score, April 11, 1961: Celtics 121, Hawks 112.

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		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
	New York Yankees	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	9	0
	Boston Red Sox	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	5	13	0
WP: Don Schwall (10-2) • LP: Bud Daley (8-12)
Winning Run scored with 2 outs

HR: Elston Howard (9, off Don Schwall, 9th inn, 1 on, 0 outs to Deep CF).

Each team used only one pitcher July 23, 1961.