And he’s going to deliver it himself!

World Series – New York Yankees v Los Angeles Dodgers – Game 2 / Harry How/GettyImages

Reminder to New York Yankees fans behaving drunkenly in a public space: someone is always going to pull out a camera. Someone is always going to believe an entirely unnecessary video is worth sharing. Someone is always going to, inadvertently or intentionally, expose you.

Game 2 of the World Series represented a dark three hours for Yankee fans in an entirely different way than the opener. In Game 1, Giancarlo Stanton — stop me if you’ve heard this before — pummeled a baseball, and the Yankees got off the mat again in the 10th inning after defensive foibles led to a sac fly (for the second time).

Tragically, the entire thing evaporated in the span of one Nestor Cortes fastball (but, honestly, the game had felt stolen even when it seemed likely to land in the win column). Game 2? The Yankees were one-hit for hours as the Dodgers nursed a three-run lead. Tim Hill, ignored in Game 1, shut down their thumpers. It could not have gone worse.

And so, when Dodgers cyborg Shohei Ohtani was gunned down on a stolen base attempt to end the seventh and couldn’t get up, it was fair to feel a devilish flicker of hope, the kind you try to bury deep down inside. Any injury would greatly compromise the series at large, but it certainly could’ve been a momentum shift.

What you should do in that situation is temper your emotions and silently mull over how things might be different when you wake. What you should not do? Loudly cheer Ohtani’s injury in a public space, like Billy’s Sports Bar in the Bronx. Because yeah, people aren’t going to love this, and this isn’t going to stay private.

Yankees fans cheering Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani injury in World Series Game 2 is a predictably bad look

Not only did this clip quickly spread to the Yankee-hating corners of the internet — likely before any of these people had even finished their High Noons — but Ohtani, fresh off a shoulder subluxation that seemed poised to keep him down, recovered with full range of motion by Sunday.

Why do the Dodgers plan to start him with a 2-0 lead, despite nursing an injury that still might eventually need intervention? Because this is the World Series, and they have the correct degree of urgency. The Yankees better match their level on Monday night in the Bronx. Otherwise, the story of this series will remain “letting Game 1 get away, then cheering a potential escape hatch rather than stepping up in Game 2.”