{"id":18009,"date":"2025-07-24T00:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/yankees-need-to-improve-defense-after-disastrous-night-against-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:40:05","slug":"yankees-need-to-improve-defense-after-disastrous-night-against-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/yankees-need-to-improve-defense-after-disastrous-night-against-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Need to Improve Defense After Disastrous Night Against Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8211; Yankees manager Aaron Boone expressed his discontent after his team&#8217;s 8-4 loss to the Blue Jays, highlighting that the defensive performance was not as expected.\n\nBoone emphasized the need to improve defense, showing confidence in the team&#8217;s ability to achieve it. He acknowledged that, although they have good defenders, the performance of the night was disappointing.\n\nDuring the game, the Yankees committed four errors.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Max Fried and Jazz Chisholm Jr. incurred pitching errors.<\/li><li>Ben Rice and Jasson Dom\u00ednguez committed fielding errors.<\/li><\/ul>\n\nIn addition to the errors counted, the Yankees suffered other setbacks. Cody Bellinger, for example, lost a fly ball due to the glare of the sun, and there was no one covering the plate after a wild pitch by Fried in the fifth inning.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today was a bit shaky.<\/p><cite>Cody Bellinger<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDavis Schneider scored from third base after a bad pitch from Fried. Fried, winner of three Gold Gloves, admitted that the pitch was not good.\n\nGeorge Springer took advantage of a mistake by catcher J.C. Escarra to score from second base.\n\nIn the three-game series, the Yankees accumulated seven errors, including inaccurate throws that allowed runs for Toronto in the first game, resulting in a 4-1 victory for the Blue Jays.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We haven&#8217;t been playing well defensively.<\/p><cite>Aaron Judge<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBoone also commented on the two poor series in Toronto.\n\nThe Yankees have committed 52 errors in 102 games. Their performance is significantly better when they play error-free.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s in our control, so we&#8217;ll take care of it.<\/p><cite>Aaron Judge<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Yankees manager Aaron Boone expressed his discontent after his team&#8217;s 8-4 loss to the Blue Jays, highlighting that the defensive performance was not as expected. Boone emphasized the need to improve defense, showing confidence in the team&#8217;s ability to achieve it. He acknowledged that, although they have good defenders, the performance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1212,591,3163,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-18009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mlb","7":"tag-blue-jays","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-errors","10":"tag-yankees"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}