Yankees fans were ready to send play-by-play man John Flaherty packing after he called a game-tying home run a pop up and jinxed the Rockies walk off.
The curse of the commentator is very real. Just ask the Yankees and play-by-play man John Flaherty, who had fans in New York cursing his name on social media after the Bronx Bombers got bombed in a 8-7 walk off loss to the Rockies on Sunday.
Colorado won the series with the victory, sending the Yankees back to the bottom of the AL East.
While fans have plenty of frustration to express over Aaron Boone, Brian Cashman and the entire Yankees organization, it was Flaherty's turn in the crosshairs.
Yankees fans want to fire John Flaherty into the sun
Fans were first astounded by Flaherty's reaction to the home run blast hit by Nolan Jones to tie things up in the bottom of the 11th. He actually said, "popped up" as the ball left the bat before traveling 450 feet into the stands.
Then Flaherty committed the most laughable form of jinxing you'll ever see, pointing out how Alan Trejo had not hit a home run this year exactly a split second before the second baseman smacked a 421-foot walk off.
That call was so perfectly disastrous that people on Twitter wondered if it was fake. It wasn't. It was gloriously real. That really happened.
Have a look at some of the responses to Flaherty on Twitter:
Sunday's game was a rollercoaster of emotions for the Yankees in general. Despite Gerrit Cole's strong pitching performance, NY trailed 1-0 until the top of the sixth when they generated three runs courtesy of Isiah Kiner-Falefa's single, Ryan McMahon's throwing error and Anthony Volpe's RBI grounder.
That all evaporated when CJ Cron hit an eighth-inning grand slam to put the Rockies up 5-3.
In the top of the ninth, another error by McMahon and Harrison Bader's sacrifice fly tied things up at five apiece to force extra innings.
Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Peraza each drove in a run as it looked like the Yankees would get out with a win. That's when the two home runs spoiled the party.
