Yankees recent woes captured in one no-mans land collision as road trip ends with Subway Series disaster

In one agonizing play to end Sunday’s crushing finale against the Mets, the Yankees offered a snapshot to encapsulate a brutal road trip.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

With runners on the corners and one out in a tie game, Tim Hill on the mound and the Yankees using a five-man infield, Carson Benge hit a chopper over the mound between Anthony Volpe and Max Schuemann.The two collided, both going for the ball, costing them any chance of throwing out the runner at home as the Mets walked off with a 7-6 win at Citi Field.It is impossible to know whether Schuemann or Volpe would have gotten the runner at the plate had either of them fielded it cleanly and without obstacles, but they never got to find out, ending a 2-7 trip against the Brewers, Orioles and Mets.“Maybe, but we’re both just treating it do or die,” Volpe said.

“That was the game.”“I was just going to be aggressive.We have to be quick,” Schuemann said.

“Tough play at the plate either way.I talked to Volpe about it, it’s just one of those things that we’re both going to be aggressive to that baseball no matter what.

We both want to make a play.”“It’s in no-man’s-land,” said manager Aaron Boone, who did not think the Yankees would have gotten Marcus Semien out at home even if the chopper had been fielded cleanly.The Yankees had won nine of 12 series this season and tied in another before this road trip, when they dropped three straight series.Four of their seven losses came by one run, giving them 10 on the season.

And two of those included walk-offs in games where David Bednar gave up a first-pitch home run on a curveball — last Sunday in Milwaukee, when Brice Turang walked him off, and this Sunday when Tyrone Taylor crushed a game-tying three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth when the Yankees were one out away from the win.Now they finally return home for fou...