{"id":870921,"date":"2026-10-04T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870921\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:38:12","slug":"boone-calls-out-austin-wells-costly-base-running-decision-in-yankees-loss-to-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870921\/","title":{"rendered":"Boone Calls Out Austin Wells’ Costly Base-Running Decision in Yankees’ Loss to Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone acknowledged catcher Austin Wells was guilty of “not a good decision” when he got thrown out at third base in the eighth inning of Saturday’s 1-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

Rays starter Drew Rasmussen had a no-hitter through two outs in the eighth before Wells doubled to right field. The veteran backstop tried stretching it to a triple but was thrown out in plenty of time.<\/p>\n

“Not sure if he saw something on his way between first and second that caused him to go there,” Boone told reporters<\/a> after the game. “But, obviously, a mistake there.”<\/p>\n

Wells, for his part, said he thought the ball took a bigger bounce off the wall than it did.<\/p>\n

“[Rays right fielder Victor Mesa Jr.] made a good play on the ball,” he told reporters<\/a>. “Two outs there, you know, I’m trying to make something happen. Be aggressive with not much going on in the game. But, you know, obviously, I would love to be safe there or standing on second base.”<\/p>\n

The long-held wisdom<\/a> in baseball is to never make the first or last out at third, which Wells was guilty of.<\/p>\n

His aggression was understandable to a degree. The Bronx Bombers had done nothing against Rasmussen, who struck out 10 and walked two batters, to that point. Getting somebody on third would’ve meant New York was a bloop hit or an error away from tying the game.<\/p>\n

Wells might’ve had just an easy time scoring from second on a base hit, though. With two outs, he would’ve been running on contact.<\/p>\n

The series is far from over, and the Yankees have ace Cam Schlittler taking the mound for Game 2 on Monday. Should they go on to exit in the American League Division Series, Wells’ gaffe will take on a larger significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone acknowledged catcher Austin Wells was guilty of “not a good decision” when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-870921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}