TORONTO — Isiah Kiner-Falefa giveth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa taketh away.
After extending the Yankees’ lead early on Monday night time with a house run, the shortstop had a defensive miscue that led to a pair of runs within the fourth inning earlier than the Blue Jays got here away with a 3-2 win in 10 innings at Rogers Centre.
With no outs and a runner on first within the fourth inning, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. smoked a 111.5 mph floor ball to shortstop, the place Kiner-Falefa bobbled it, costing him an opportunity at a double play. However as an alternative of simply taking the out at first as soon as he scooped the ball again up, Kiner-Falefa briefly considered nonetheless throwing to second earlier than in the end going to first. The slight pause allowed Guerrero simply sufficient time to be secure at first base.
“It’s clearly hit actually laborious,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “I haven’t seen a replay on it but. Our iPads have that high-home [view], so it’s laborious for me to guage what the hop did and issues like that.”
Two batters later, with one out and the bases loaded, Teoscar Hernandez ripped a two-run double off the center-field wall that tied the sport.
However the Yankees additionally missed a possible probability to nab Hernandez at second after he took a protracted take a look at the fly ball pondering it was a house run. Aaron Decide collected the ball in middle and threw to the cutoff man, Kiner-Falefa, who turned and threw dwelling as an alternative of going to second, the place Gleyber Torres was heading for a probable probability to get Hernandez.
“As a center infielder there — clearly it’s very loud — when that ball’s hit, you don’t even assume there’s a play at second,” Boone mentioned. “That’s only a double all the best way, so that you’re type of getting your self in place to throw dwelling. The runners acquired held up a bit bit and it ended up going dwelling. I feel if we had been at second — as a result of Teoscar wasn’t actually operating — we would have had a play there.
“It turned out to be a bit inconsequential as a result of that’s all they scored anyway. However that’s a type of the place you attempt to play in addition to you'll be able to along with your eyes in a loud situation the place it will get a bit completely different than what the play exhibits.”
Kiner-Falefa’s dwelling run was his fourth of the 12 months — all of them coming since Aug. 13 — a solo shot that put the Yankees up 2-0. It got here within the second inning off Blue Jays right-hander Kevin Gausman, who largely held the Yankees in verify throughout 6 ¹/₃ innings.
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