Blue Jays fly too close to the sun with premature obnoxious Anthony Volpe tweet

If you were taking bets on which MLB team would tweet an unprofessional pile-on aimed at Anthony Volpe's bad defense in the middle of the sixth inning of a game where the result was undecided, you would've pegged the Red Sox as massive favorites. Somehow, the Jays got there first — and, perhaps even more stunningly, the Yankees actually made them pay for it.

Volpe, by any measure, has some form of the yips, and his league-leading 13th error of the season at shortstop (tied with Willy Adames) came on a poor throw to start off the sixth inning on Tuesday. All's fair in love, war, and baseball, and we understand a division rival's urge to snicker at the Yankees' failure, but ... in this day and age, when everything about a social media image is perfectly curated, it was a bit shocking to see the Blue Jays' official Twitter account go all in on, "Haha! This loser is struggling!"

The Jays, unsurprisingly, rallied after Volpe's error to tie the game. That's what both of these teams tend to do. The Yankees love to open the door to their opponents, and Toronto loves to even the score with frenzied comebacks.

When they posted the highlights of the inning, though, they didn't cut out Volpe's misplay and focus on the two clutch run-scoring hits that followed it. They centered the entire tweet around the Yankees' flub as the thesis, captioning the post, "You knew this was coming, right?"

Yankees make Blue Jays pay after obnoxious Anthony Volpe tweet

It's the kind of thing that, as a fan, makes you seethe and beg for your team to make them pay and make it matter.

Thankfully, Toronto experienced another common Boone-era Yankees reality on Tuesday night: taking an obnoxious victory lap too soon.

Despite two textbook quiet innings after Volpe's miscue in the seventh and eighth, Ben Rice took full advantage of his second look at Jeff Hoffman this series, sending a towering home run out to right in the ninth to break the tie. Devin Williams issued a leadoff single to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the bottom half, then retired three batters in order. Both his lowest and highest points have come against the Blue Jays this season. Toronto, now 5-1 against the Yankees at their home ballpark this season and still in prime position, got an early reminder not to tempt fate in playoff atmospheres. They also got an early reminder not to post things online they wouldn't defend face-to-face.

This article will surely result in 20,000 Torontonians coming out of the woodwork telling me to "stop crying," despite the fact that if the Yankees posted a video of Vlad Jr. falling flat on his face, they'd be lobbying parliament to censure the account. You can post whatever you want. Yes, even bullying. You just have to be prepared for the consequences of planting your flag before the final score.

The Yankees don't typically tend to make teams regret these kinds of choices. But Rice and the bullpen certainly did last night.