{"id":367577,"date":"2026-10-08T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367577\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:52:14","slug":"heroes-zeros-from-yankees-season-ending-game-3-loss-to-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367577\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros from Yankees&#8217; season-ending Game 3 loss to Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/05\/sports\/yankees-errors-push-season-to-brink-with-alds-game-2-loss-to-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees\u2019 4-3 loss to the Rays<\/a> in Game 3 of the ALDS in the Bronx:<\/p>\n<p>Hero<\/p>\n<p>Victor Mesa Jr. gave the Rays the lead for good with a two-run homer with two outs in the sixth off lefty Max Fried.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5147929;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41225269\" width=\"894\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/new-york-yankees-captain-aaron-144188603.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees players Aaron Judge, Anthony Volpe, and George Lombard Jr. lean on the dugout railing, looking disappointed after a playoff loss.\" class=\"wp-image-41225269\"\/>Yankees captain Aaron Judge, second baseman Anthony Volpe and shortstop George Lombard Jr look out onto the field after their season-ending Game 3 loss to the Rays in The Bronx. JASON SZENES FOR NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n<p>Zero<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees lineup produced just five runs in the series, so while Fried was far from his best Wednesday, he was given no margin for error, since almost every bat other than Ben Rice\u2019s went silent.<\/p>\n<p>Unsung Hero<\/p>\n<p>The Rays bullpen gave up just one run in 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings in relief of Nick Martinez, with five relievers mostly shutting down the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>17: Years since the Yankees last won a World Series title.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the night<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire Boone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Stadium crowd chanted its displeasure about manager Aaron Boone after the final out of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the Yankees\u2019 4-3 loss to the Rays in Game 3 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,34720,20,5515,9,24,321,63,319,25678,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-367577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367577","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=367577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}