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Oops!…He Did It Again

Yankees castoff blows it again in walk-off fashion

The smirk Aroldis Chapman wore after Jose Altuve’s walk-off that sent the Astros to the World Series in 2019 is burned in Yankees fans’ memory. Who could forget the Cuban Missile’s playoff blowups?

Two teams later, Chapman still isn’t clutch. Thursday night is the latest example for the Rangers, who squandered a chance to clinch a tie for the AL West title when a 2-1 ninth-inning lead turned into a 3-2 loss to the wild-card contending Mariners.

Chapman entered for the ninth looking for a save and then allowed two singles threw a wild pitch and issued a walk to load the bases with nobody out.

“The ball wasn’t going where I wanted it to go,” Chapman said, via Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News. “I threw what I wanted to throw and they just did a good job of making contact. It’s a hard loss, but we’ve got to come back and get after it again tomorrow.”

That was it for Chapman, who was replaced by Jonathan Hernandez. After a flyout to center and popup to third, JP Crawford laced a two-run double for a walk-off win that jumped the Mariners to one game behind the Astros for the final wild-card spot instead of falling two back with three to play.

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