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Jazz Chisholm gives KC Royals absurd bulletin board material after Yankees' Game 2 loss

They're not...the ones who need motivation, though.
Adam Weinrib
Adam Weinrib

Yanks Go Yard

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Ignoring the scoreboard entirely and deciding, for whatever reason, that the winning team was the one that required additional motivation on Monday night, New York Yankees third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. stepped up to the plate and delivered.

Chisholm, fresh off a ninth-inning home run to briefly infuse Monday's moribund affair with a syringe full of juice, took to the microphone in the postgame scrum to set a small brush fire after theYankees' Game 2 loss. Now, it's up to the Kansas City Royals to decide whether to contain the blaze or let it burn.

"We had a lot of missed opportunities tonight. (The Royals) just got lucky," Chisholm noted, following a game where the Yankees left the bases occupied, but actually went only 1-for-6 with RISP.

What Chisholm seems to be missing, though, is that New York also went 2-for-13 in the same situations in the opener. Stranding runners seems to be their entire MO, and if that's "luck," then the Royals are likely in for a whole lot more of it before this series is over.

Yankees' Jazz Chisholm fires up the other team by accident after ALDS Game 2 vs. KC Royals

Don't blame Chisholm. He's new here. He doesn't know how the Modern October Yankees work yet.

Surely, Aaron Judge -- who is an MVP candidate -- won't continue whiffing at a 35% rate and reaching base exclusively on dribblers! Well ...

Surely, Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton will eventually leave the yard instead of blooping singles! Well...

Surely, the Yankees' pitching staff will continue limiting damage after surpassing expectations all year! WELL...

Surely, the Yankees opponent's most random players won't ignite and come through, resoundingly, in the clutch over and over and over again!

Oh, COME ON. Kansas City's got Patrick Mahomes. Isn't that enough? Why do they need Garrett Hampson, too?

The Royals got a little lucky in Game 2, but not tremendously so. They let a fired-up Rodón stomp around the mound in the opening frame, knowing that his own momentum would eventually knock him off-kilter and he'd topple over. They knew that, if they snagged the lead, the dead-behind-the-eyes Yankees probably wouldn't punch back. They knew that their rested bullpen was likelier to cover five innings more efficiently than the Yankees' rested bullpen, given the heater that KC's unit ended the season on.

Chisholm will learn all of these harsh truths in due time, too.

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib is a Content Director on the FanSided network, and has been the co-editor at Yanks Go Yard for 6 years. He also co-hosts The Baseball Insiders Podcast thrice weekly, alongside FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray, as well as the Yanks Go Yard Podcast. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at 12up.com, and has been covering MLB and NFL for 10 years. He was also a headline and features contributor at ClickHole and Onion Sports, as well as the Associate Producer of the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Believeland". An avowed fan of the New York sports teams -- specifically the Yankees -- as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels, you can find Adam complaining mid-game on Twitter, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn if the game goes really poorly.