Yankees' defensive miscues wipe away golden opportunity to even ALDS

"I'll be the first one to say that I didn't do my job," the 25-year-old ace said. "But it didn't seem like we really showed up today."

But in reality, the Yankees played such historically porous defense Monday that they rendered their most dominant playoff ace in a generation completely irrelevant with several defensive misplays including four errors.

At one point, they set the record for most errors in a single Yankee playoff game with five -- only to have the fifth error overturned by the official scorer.