{"id":364614,"date":"2026-10-05T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364614\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:30:20","slug":"yankees-need-to-understand-their-identity-after-austin-wells-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364614\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees need to understand their identity after Austin Wells blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The 2026 Yankees are a nice baseball team. But they are what they are, and they need to realize what they are.<\/p>\n<p>That was one of Yankees catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/04\/sports\/josh-hart-was-every-yankees-fan-after-austin-wells-blunder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Wells\u2019 multiple mistakes<\/a> on his memorable baserunning blunder in Game 1 (more mistakes below). Wells, who ranks in the bottom 16 percent for sprint speed, mistook himself for a fast guy.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, we all know Wells also was trying to do way more than necessary when he was thrown out trying to stretch his bullet double into a triple with two outs in the eighth inning of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/03\/sports\/yankees-lineup-fails-to-show-up-in-brutal-game-1-alds-loss-to-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 1-0 Game 1 defeat to the Rays<\/a> in the division series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the risk was wrong,\u201d Wells admitted afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The 2026 Yankees are a nice baseball team. But they are what they are,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35539,20,5515,9,11,10,321,319,428],"class_list":["post-364614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-boone","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}