Evan & Tiki: Aaron Judge will be remembered for dropped ball unless he wins a World Series

The Yankees imploded in the fifth inning in game five after a series of disastrous mistakes that began with Aaron Judge dropping a routine fly ball in center field.

It was the first error Judge made all season, and it was critical, as it led to a five-run inning by the Dodgers to erase a 5-0 Yankee lead and eventually send them home in five games.

For Evan and Tiki, Judge’s blunder could become his Yankee legacy if he and the Bombers can’t get back to the Fall Classic and redeem themselves before he calls it a career.

“I don’t know if that catch is ever gonna be something that Yankee fans are ever gonna be able to just move on from,” Evan said.

It initially seemed like game five could be the start of Judge rewriting his current playoff narrative, as he blasted a go-ahead two-run home run to send Yankee Stadium into a frenzy on the first pitch he saw in the game. But Tiki wonders if Judge finally coming through in the Fall Classic caused him to exhale and become too relaxed innings later in the outfield.

“When you get back, you gotta keep rising,” Tiki said. “And he didn’t.”

Instead, Judge made an uncharacteristic blunder that led to one of the most disastrous defensive innings in World Series history, and it will be hard to shake that memory unless Judge and the Yanks finally become the last team standing.

“That was the inning...it happened at the beginning of that inning. It’s not gonna be forgotten unless he erases it with a championship,” Evan said.

“As great as he is, you’re not forgetting this unless he erases it with a championship.”