Vicious Jazz Chisholm collision in Yankees' slopfest vs. Tigers is new rock bottom

The New York Yankees entered their annually troublesome June series at Fenway Park having won two straight games in Detroit, besting Tarik Skubal and surviving with the minuscule trusted core of their bullpen. Would they manage a split in Boston? Would they actually take the series after a Sox freefall in Colorado left them gasping for mountain air? The Yankees were decimated, but give them. credit - they'd actually been treading water pretty well against strong pitching.

Until ... yeah, no.

Aaron Boone played an unholy defensive alignment in Game 1 in Boston, a contest in which Cam Schlittler surrendered zero earned runs and lost. The Yanks got run over by excellent starts from Payton Tolle and Jake Bennett, then lost on one of history's most catastrophic walk-off sequences after stealing the lead back on a few miracles and defensive blunders in the ninth and tenth.

Looking to get back on the right track, Ryan Weathers toed the home rubber on Monday and ... didn't survive the second inning. Jose Caballero, in the grand tradition of other fill-in third baseman before him like Amed Rosario and Oswaldo Cabrera, made a throwing error that helped open the floodgates. A ball boinked off Cody Bellinger's glove. Then, on a pop-up to Jasson Domínguez, bad turned to worse, nearly two months after Domínguez's last scary collision.

Watch the video here. Jazz Chisholm, likely trying to compensate for whatever slow sludge is going on at every position of the diamond, seems blissfully unaware that Domínguez is camped under the ball and approaching it until the moment of impact. He's then clotheslined heartily, and leaves the game after a thorough examination.

Yankees, Red Sox series has Bronx collapse started in earnest

The Yankees aren't the only team in baseball with a propensity for Looney Tunes garbage - Juan Soto on Line 1. But they sure seem to have picked up their rate of Looney Tunes garbage at a rapid pace, beginning with their arrival on Fenway Park's grass.

Will it get worse before it gets better? Will it ever get better? Or will it just continue to occur at the same snowballing rate, forever and ever, until Aaron Boone earns a five-year extension or buys the franchise or sponsors the stadium? How much can we blame Boone for his decimated roster finally regressing? Considering even the healthy members of the roster's star core, like Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice, are pressing immensely, he probably should shoulder at least a good chunk of the blame. Nobody's stepping up. Nothing ever changes. As a wise man once said, this is what we do, baby.

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