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As he gazed out onto the field following the ninth inning on Thursday night, the look on Aroldis Chapman’s face represented a mixture of defeat, frustration, anger and remorse.
The Yankees’ closer—one of the Majors’ best—doesn’t slip often, but when he does, he takes it hard. A pair of wild pitches and a blown save weighed heavy on the lefty’s mind as he leaned against the dugout rail at Tropicana Field.
His teammates didn’t give him a chance to brood for long, stringing together a five-run 10th inning that was punctuated by a moonshot from batterymate Gary Sánchez during New York’s 8-4 win over the Rays.