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The New York Yankees are quickly becoming a comedy of errors this season.<\/p>\n

Yankees first baseman Ben Rice cost the team with a blunder during Sunday\u2019s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. In the fourth inning at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., Rice was called out on strikes by home plater umpire Dan Bellino on a 3-2 pitch by Tampa Bay\u2019s Drew Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

Rice tossed aside his bat as if he was ready to walk to first base and then touched his helmet. As a result, Bellino initiated an automated ball-strike (ABS) system challenge because Rice had touched his helmet.<\/p>\n

The pitch was firmly in the strike zone, and the Yankees thus lost one of their two allotted challenges for the game (despite Rice seemingly protesting that he had not intended to initiate an ABS challenge). Here is the video of the bizarre moment.<\/p>\n

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The Yankees would go on to lose the game to the Rays by a narrow final of 5-4, marking a series sweep and also the Yankees\u2019 fifth straight loss. Meanwhile, Rice\u2019s blunder (especially within the first half of the game) put the Yankees behind the 8-ball and meant that they had to be very cautious with their challenges for the remainder of the contest.<\/p>\n

Now just 8-7 on the season after a 7-1 start, the Yankees are being plagued by many of the same issues that tripped them up last season. Manager Aaron Boone\u2019s tactics are back to being called into question, and now the mental mistakes that plagued the Yankees in the past are rearing their ugly heads again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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