The Yankees may have gone quietly into the good night, but the Blue Jays certainly did not.
On the heels of their 5-2 win in Game 4 of the ALDS at Yankee Stadium – advancing them to the American League Championship Series – Toronto slugger Vladimir Guerrero twisted the knife in a postgame interview from the clubhouse on Fox on Wednesday night.
“Daaaaaaa Yankees lose!” he said after being showered with beer in the raucous scene, channeling former Red Sox great David Ortiz.
That drew laughter from Ortiz, a noted Yankees hater, who didn’t need much pleading to get Guerrero to repeat himself.
Yankees icons Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were less enthused on the FS1 panel.
If there is any Yankees pain that comes with the words, it’s secondary to that inflicted by the first baseman in the four-game series.
He batted an absurd .529 in the series (9-for-17) with three home runs, nine RBIs and a 1.609 OPS to continue his longstanding torment of the Bronx Bombers.
Guerrero – who has held a decades-long grudge against the Yankees – wasn’t alone in his trolling.
Blue Jays manager John Schneider implored his team to “Start spreading the news, bitches!” Before they blasted Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” and then sprayed everyone and everything down in the visitors’ locker room at the Stadium with champagne and beer.
This season, the Yankees stopped playing the signature Sinatra song after losses, ending the practice that began in 1980.
The Blue Jays, it seems, were all too willing to help out on that front.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
