Blue Jays' Twitter infuriatingly trolls Yankees with Dodgers reference after meltdown

There is something wrong with the New York Yankees. Well ... scratch that ... there are several things wrong with the New York Yankees, but their most glaring defect - defensive sloppiness, and the resulting unraveling - always seems to rear its ugly head during their most crucial series.

It happened again in Toronto against the Blue Jays on Monday in the opening game of a three-game road set, their first time visiting the Rogers Centre since ... well, three weeks ago, when they melted down in Game 1 and were summarily swept.

If you forgot exactly what that looked like and how it felt - how could you?! - the Yankees' putrid fundamentals reared their ugly head again on Monday evening, just as Dodgers utility infielder Chris Taylor laid out last fall, a few days after the fifth inning of Game 5 ended the Yankees' season at its lowest point.

Remember what Taylor said after the confetti had fallen, describing the fateful moment that the Dodgers had prepared for and the Yankees apparently hadn't? The Blue Jays' social admin clearly remembers, and made good use of the quote after Oswald Peraza and Anthony Volpe made back-to-back horrific throws to prevent Carlos Rodón from escaping the fifth inning with a two-run deficit.

Toronto Blue Jays troll Yankees with reference to Chris Taylor quote about their defensive meltdown in World Series

“We’re all kind of thinking it — (the Yankees) kind of (crapped) down their leg,” Taylor said last fall. “They were pressing. It was one thing after the next. … All we’ve got to do is put the ball in play right now.”

"The Yips" doesn't even begin to describe what we're watching from this bunch whenever the lights get just a little bit brighter. And if Peraza and Volpe are supposed to be "defense-first" players, at this juncture? It feels even uglier.

It was infuriating that Taylor and the Dodgers seemingly had faith that one random flub would somehow lead to a gigantic snowball, but it was much more infuriating that they were completely correct. If "two outs, a runner on in the fifth inning of a one-run game against the AL East team you're chasing" is too big a moment for these folks, then God help you in the postseason, if you ever reach it again.

Glad the Jays' Twitter admin was able to keep the "good times" rolling, as the Yankees fail to put even the tiniest bit of pressure on their opponents yet again.