Yankees: Rays owning NYY after Game 5 loss is incredibly embarrassing

The Yankees should be embarrassed, and that’s the end of the story.

Another year in the postseason, another early exit, with perhaps this one being the most inexplicable. Aside from missing Luis Severino, James Paxton and Tommy Kahnle, this New York Yankees team was at full strength going up against the Tampa Bay Rays. They had Gerrit Cole starting two of the five ALDS games. The offense was fully operational.

Instead, the Bombers put up just one run in a do-or-die Game 5 and allowed a go-ahead home run to Michael Brosseau in the bottom of the eighth inning to break the tie. New York didn’t even put up a semblance of a fight in the ninth inning. 2-1 was your final. The Rays are going to the ALCS and the Yankees are going home.

You thought that was embarrassing enough? Well, here’s more of a reason to be ashamed. Tampa continued its party well into the night and took shot after shot at the Yankees. And we can’t even argue about it not being 100% deserved.

While the Yankees were doing their all-too-familiar somber postgame interviews and crafting meaningless responses for their consistent ineptitude on the biggest stage in the biggest moments, the Rays were puffing on cigars and trolling them with a New York-themed playlist blasting on the speakers at Petco Park.

Yup, the Rays and their consistent payroll ranking between 28-30 in MLB. That’s them dancing all over your grave with your trademark tunes playing at your funeral. Austin Meadows and Michael Brosseau beat you. Meadows was awful all series, going 2-for-13 with six strikeouts. Brosseau? He barely played, but in five at-bats he managed two hits, one of which was the series clincher.

The Rays deserve every second of this, and the Yankees deserve to watch every second of this.

Enjoy watching the ALCS from hell, everyone. Rays vs Astros. This was completely avoidable, but the Yankees only showed up for two of the five games in this series and then talked a huge game heading into Friday only to lay an egg.

We’d call this embarrassing once again, but that word really doesn’t do this situation justice any longer.

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