Ben Rice saves Aaron Boone, Anthony Volpe from Yankees fans' wrath with clutch homer

It's been quite the 24 hours for the New York Yankees and their fans. On Monday night, Oswald Peraza and Anthony Volpe made back-to-back errors on routine plays to seal the team's fifth-straight loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. That resulted in nonsensical postgame comments and then Aaron Boone absolutely blowing up on the Talkin' Yanks podcast.

On Tuesday night, the Yankees jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the first inning. Trent Grisham and Cody Bellinger put pressure on Max Scherzer, and then Jazz Chisholm belted a three-run homer. It looked like the Yankees were going to rebound emphatically and blow their rivals out of the water to force a rubber match. But the next seven innings were agonizing, and it wasn't until Ben Rice saved them in the top of the ninth.

Before that, though, the Blue Jays staged a comeback made possible by another routine Volpe error. He inexplicably skipped a throw to Rice, and Myles Straw was safe to lead off the sixth inning. A Davis Schneider double scored Straw, and then a George Springer RBI single brought in Schneider. None of those runs should have crossed the plate if Volpe could've just done his job. He now leads all position players with 13 errors on the season. That allowed the Jays to tie the game 4-4.

Don't worry, though, Boone will tell you everything's fine! And he'll probably ask why anybody is concerned about another Volpe error because we should be focusing on Rice's heroics!

Ben Rice saves Aaron Boone, Anthony Volpe from Yankees fans' wrath with clutch homer

Lost in the shuffle of Volpe's heinous error was Boone's decision to (incorrectly) call on Jonathan Loaisiga for the 15th time this season. The right-hander unraveled faster than usual, allowing a run to score in his fifth straight outing. He cannot pitch a clean frame, nor can he clean up another pitcher's mess. There's quite literally no place for him on the roster right now, but Boone felt the need to bring him in to face what will go down as one of the most tense sequences of this series.

Rice made all of that go away, though. In the top of the ninth with one out and the game still tied, he absolutely destroyed a solo home run off Jeff Hoffman to put the Yankees on top. Devin Williams would notch a clutch save to secure the 5-4 victory.

Massive. Exhale. Win tomorrow. Sometimes it's just that simple. Let's see if the Yankees care to capitalize in what could be a momentum-shifting turnaround for them.

In other news, Boone and Volpe live to see another day. Yankees fans certainly won't forget about the duo's uncanny ability to make the team exponentially worse on a nightly basis, but they have no choice but to appreciate the win because New York has been losing far too much over the last seven weeks. Really, though, it was the best-case scenario for fans. The Yankees won, but it was at the expense of Boone and Volpe, further strengthening their argument for changes that need to be (but won't be) made.

The vicious circle of fandom.