The New York Yankees fell victim to the Rangers on the road, a team that isn’t really in the postseason hunt. The Yankees were ‘beaten’ by Joc Pederson, a player who hasn’t been performing well lately, but who managed to nullify the “strong comments” made by the Yankees’ announcers against him.

In the game against the Yankees, the Rangers were losing in the bottom of the ninth inning when Pederson stepped up to the plate against the Bombers’ closer, Devin Williams. Williams had recently made a painful comment to summarize the struggles his team is going through. It was at that moment that the announcers said Pederson’s physique had “evolved.”

Pederson, of course, didn’t hear those comments at the time he was at home plate. Instead, he seized the occasion to show off with a pinch-hit home

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