New Yankees Jake Bird and David Bednar have nightmarish debuts

MIAMI — Jake Bird and David Bednar ran into each other in the Denver airport around midnight Thursday and boarded a plane bound for Miami to join the Yankees, who had acquired them a few hours earlier at the trade deadline.

At the time, those may have felt like two tickets to paradise. Their trip covered about 1,700 air miles, but more than that, it delivered them from last place to the world’s most famous baseball team, a pennant race and a chance to win a championship in a few months.

It didn’t take long, however, for their joint journey to take a hellish turn. In their Yankees debuts, the relievers were among the many culprits in a mind-numbing 13-12 loss to the Marlins at loanDepot park.

Bird was the first of the bullpen arrivals to make it to the mound.

He entered to begin the bottom of the seventh with the Yankees holding a seemingly comfortable 9-4 lead and gave up a single off the right field wall to Agustín Ramírez.

After Bird struck out Heriberto Hernandez, Otto Lopez lined a single to left and took second as the throw went in toward third.