In some way, an unpleasant sequence received even uglier.
A lot, a lot uglier.
Paul Blackburn — who simply signed with the Yankees after being launched by the Mets — and the Yankees gave up seven runs within the ninth inning of their 12-1 loss to the Purple Sox on Saturday afternoon in The Bronx.
The loss marked the Yankees’ eighth straight to Boston.
A ninth from hell featured an array of embarrassing miscues.
Anthony Volpe dedicated an error, fielding a routine grounder at shortstop and subsequently throwing it means over Ben Rice’s head at first base and into the Yankees dugout.
That allowed Nathaniel Lowe to attain and Ceddanne Rafaela to succeed in third base.
Then, Rafaela scored on a balk from Blackburn.
And simply moments later, Carlos Narvaez crushed a two-run homer.
“Frankly, the Yankees are getting embarrassed on the sphere at Yankee Stadium,” play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay mentioned on the printed.
Later, when the inning lastly ended, Kay mentioned: “Fairly frankly, the Yankees are getting schooled by the Purple Sox.”
