"Yes, I messed up—it was indeed a misjudgment that changed the game in hindsight. Yes, I wish I had challenged it at the time, but I didn't. That was my failure to fulfill my responsibility as a head coach, and I want to apologize to my players and the fans."
At the pre-game press conference for the third game of the Yankees vs. Indians division series, faced with the outrage of the New York media, Joe Girardi took full responsibility with a wave of his hand.
Trailing 0-2 in a best-of-five series means the Yankees are on the edge of a cliff, one more loss and they'll be eliminated—for New York fans who are used to winning and always set their standards at the championship level, this is incredibly hard to accept, especially since they had high hopes for this season's Yankees team.
Naturally, as the current head coach of the Striped Legion, he became the main target of the New York media and fans' venting:
