Yankees minor leaguers embarrassing gaffe costs team on walk-off inside-the-park homer

With Jasson Dominguez and Spencer Jones now patrolling the outfield in The Bronx, the Yankees’ Triple-A outfielders might need some refreshing on the basics of baseball.Scranton/Wilkes-Barre right fielder Yanquiel Fernandez seemed to forget the score Friday night when he dove for but didn’t catch a fly ball that could have ended the game.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre led, 8-7, with Columbus down to its final out in the first game of a doubleheader.Clippers catcher Bo Naylor lifted the shallow fly ball that bounced in front of Fernandez.Instead of hustling after the ball, Fernandez jogged and let it roll as the tying run scored from first base and Naylor came all the way around on a walk-off inside-the-park two-run home run.Second baseman Marco Luciano ran out to the outfield to get the ball and fired back to the plate.

Catcher Austin Wells — on a rehab assignment from the Yankees — couldn’t corral the one-hop throw as Naylor slid across the plate.Fernandez, 23, is not among the Yankees’ top 30 prospects, according to MLB Pipeline.He either gave up on the play or thought that the game was tied when the ball was hit and the first run had won the game.Fernandez has 15 home runs this season and was named International League Player of the Week for May 18-24, but Jones and then Dominguez were the regular Triple-A right fielders before the injuries to Aaron Judge and Trent Grisham, respectively.Fernandez made his MLB debut with 52 games for the Rockies last season.

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