Aaron Boone’s Anthony Volpe Message After Yankees’ Loss to Angels

The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels each have all-time great hitters, but their pitchers were the headliners on Monday night. Angels right-hander Jose Soriano tossed seven shutout innings, and Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt logged 7.2 scoreless frames.

New York shortstop Anthony Volpe had a chance to give his team a walk-off win when he came up with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th inning. The Yankees were down 1-0, and first baseman Paul Goldschmidt had gotten thrown out at home two batters earlier.

However, Volpe's at-bat was another instance of New York not getting the big hit. The young infielder grounded out to third base on the first pitch, and the Yankees lost.

A reporter asked manager Aaron Boone postgame if he wished Volpe had taken a pitch in that at-bat, considering that Los Angeles reliever Hunter Strickland had just come into the game, via SNY.