Carlos Rodon had to deal with his slider disappearing in the fourth inning and after a 4-2 loss to Kansas City in the ALDS in The Bronx, the southpaw and his family had to deal with online threats.

Rodon’s wife, Ashley, posted screenshots of X posted by anonymous users, who mocked the couple’s use of IVF and wrote unprintable messages about their children.

“People can be pretty disgusting sometimes,” Rodon said when the theme of the messages was relayed to him. “But that doesn’t explain the Yankee fans. I don’t think they are. I understand (fans) are frustrated with the game, but my message to fans everywhere is, ‘We’re only human.’ We are not always perfect. … Let’s remember that this is just a game and we are not threatening people’s families.”

The ugliness came after Rodon allowed four runs in 3 ²/₃ innings in his first postseason start as a Yankee.

The left-handed Yankee’s postseason career seemed to be off to a great start before falling apart in the fourth inning.

He struck out in order to the side in the first inning, needing only twelve pitches, and he punctuated each whiff with an exclamation, spinning and shouting on the mound.

That confidence quickly disappeared.

In a scene all too familiar to Yankee fans, Rodon saw his stuff disappear quickly, this time in a critical situation, as he allowed four runs in the top of the fourth inning after the Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third. .

Rodon looked dominant in the first two innings, striking out four and retiring six of the first seven batters he faced before throwing about two singles in the third.

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But Salvador Perez opened the fourth inning with a booming home run to left on a hanging 2-0 slider, tying the game at 1-1, and things only got worse from there.

Yuli Gurriel followed with a single on a slider and advanced to second base on a wild pitch.

Tommy Pham put Kansas City ahead with a single to right-center on another bad slider and after Rodon was about to end the inning without more damage with a strikeout of Hunter Renfroe, Rodon was burned again by a single to make a slider from Garrett Hampson to make it 3-1 and end his night.

Ian Hamilton came in and gave up an RBI single to Garcia for the fourth and final run of the inning.

Rodon regretted the hitable sliders. I could have been better with those pitches. I wanted to be better than that.”

The end result was very different from the beginning.

The Yankees hoped the 31-year-old would follow up his strong regular season, which he finished with a 2.20 ERA in his last five starts.

Instead, things ended badly for Rodon, both on and off the field.

“It’s part of doing business,” Rodon said of the threats. “We get paid very well to play a game, but there is no room for people who threaten innocent little children.”