A Yankees game that otherwise will be remembered for a clinching victory over the Red Sox probably is remembered by Trent Grisham for the play in which he did not hustle on a bloop hit from Nate Eaton.
Eaton ran hard and Grisham did not, the combination turning a third-inning single into a double.
Late in that Game 2 of the wild-card series, Grisham pulled in to third base and exchanged a quick few words with the base coach in a game in which the Yankees were pulling away.
“He was kicking himself throughout the game,” Luis Rojas would say later. “[At third base], he’s still kicking himself — I was trying to bring him back.