Ryan McMahon's quote was way better than Aaron Boone's after Yankees' deflating Ali Sanchez mess

What was your favorite moment from the New York Yankees' horrific late-game collapse against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night with an important series victory at stake? Ben Rice's near-home run in the 10th? Max Schuemann swinging out of his shoes, man with the lead run on third and nobody out in the 12th? Tim Hill's bananas wild pitch after two unsuccessful foul bunts in the 10th? Well, sorry, I meant second-favorite moment. Everybody's playing for second behind the Ali Sanchez fiasco throw, potentially the dumbest play that this perpetually dumb team has ever put forth.

For the first time all season, the Yankees played brilliant defense behind the erratic Camilo Doval in the 11th frame with a one-run lead. Paul Goldschmidt scooped his wild throw to record an out; if it got by him, it would've put the winning run on third with nobody out. Ryan McMahon slid and corralled a hotshot grounder for the second out. All Doval needed to do was focus on the batter and the Yankees would've wriggled into and out of an insane jam.

At that moment, with a 2-0 count to Andrew Benintendi and ball three nestled into his glove, backup catcher Ali Sanchez ran a heroic pick play at third ... except Munetaka Murakami wasn't terribly far from the base, the throw bounced, and McMahon bounced all over his two left feet in attempting to corral it.

Every single person played it poorly and the play never should've been attempted in the first place (though Doval walked the next two people, and "bases loaded, two outs, Doval holding a one-run lead in the 11th" might've killed me anyway). But after the game, Aaron Boone said he had no issue with the attempted insanity.

Yes. Playing catch. It's that simple. The Yankees really do need to do a better job with that. Of course, if Sanchez and McMahon had merely "played catch" here, the out still wouldn't have been recorded, and the whole sequence would've been equally random. But other than that, sure.

Ryan McMahon showed real accountability after terrible play cost Yankees vs. White Sox

It's hard to get worked up about Boone's limp defenses of his players at this point, but sometimes, it's interesting to see just how far outside reality the fantasies he's created can land. This one was notable for that reason, as well as the acknowledgment that sometimes baseball's as simple as "playing catch," and the Yankees are at their worst when the game should be at its simplest.

If you wanted to hear some postgame acknowledgment that, yeah, the play was actually bad, McMahon actually held up his end of the bargain. He noted that both he and Sanchez did a "horse[crap]" job of executing, which is an interesting way of describing "creeping to the bag with the agility of Jimothy". Even McMahon did not admit that the play wasn't worth trying to begin with.

Sanchez had a heartwarming, cathartic moment with a three-run shot that extended the Yankees' lead to 9-4 in an improbable comeback win on Monday. He's fated to be DFA'd after the trade deadline when a roster spot is needed, and couldn't even make it two additional days without his story turning sour. How "modern Yankees" is that?

Unfortunately, before he got out of town, he and McMahon linked up for one of the goofiest plays in this Boone-led team's long laundry list of goof. Or, as the manager likes to call it, "playing catch".

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