While obviously not the outcome that we all hoped, the Yankees still provided us with some unforgettable playoff moments — chiefly, Cam Schlittler’s winner-take-all start against the Red Sox and Aaron Judge’s monumental effort to lead the comeback in Game 3 of the ALDS. Unfortunately, there were many more moments that doomed the Yankees these playoffs. There were plenty to choose as the most damning, but we managed to whittle it down to ten. Before our year-in-review coverage gets rolling in earnest, let’s take one final look back at what was an at times exciting but ultimately disappointing playoff run.
10. AL Wild Card Series Game 1, ninth inning
In the first game of their abbreviated postseason odyssey, the Yankees ran into the buzzsaw that is the likely AL Cy Young runner-up: Garrett