While lifting Domingo German after 84 pitches, tapping Luetge to go after Rafael Devers with two outs and a runner on first in the sixth, made some sense in that Devers does considerably worse against lefties and German had just walked Xander Bogaerts, that got the spigot running on a bullpen somewhat worn out by the week’s activities. To borrow from Judge, though, that’s all they got. They also led the game from the bottom of the first, when Gary Sanchez struck a two-run double, until the top of the seventh, when Marwin Gonzalez stroked a game-tying, two-run homer against Lucas Luetge. They picked up three hits in 12 at-bats with runners in scoring position, three more than they combined in the first two games of this series. The state of the Yankees is so poor that even in this loss, they did show off improvement. “It’s just about continuing to fight, continuing to improve. “We’ve still got, I think, 100 games or more in the season,” Aaron Judge said, coming close enough to the 102 figure. “There’s urgency,” Boone agreed afterwards, “but we’re in control of our season and our destiny, very much so, and we’ve got to take control of it.” Aaron Judge Robert Sabo This is a franchise in seriously hot water. Remember the disappointment you felt during last year’s COVID-shortened schedule when the Yankees wound up 33-27, giving them a lousy draw in the expanded postseason? Well, now they’re 31-29, and if this season had ended today, with the more traditional 10-team field, Aaron Boone and company would be headed home for the winter. The Yankees lost a ridiculous, 10-inning, 6-5 game to the Red Sox Sunday night at Yankee Stadium, suffering a sweep at the hands of their historic rivals, their fourth straight loss overall, 10th in 13 tries and five out of seven this homestand against the Bosox and Rays. Now, it gives us one more data point underlining the Yankees’ decline. Those games ruled as much as the first half decidedly did not.The 60-game milepost never meant much to a baseball season, just a round number, until last year. Celebrate successes where you can find them. The Bombers lost three-of-four at Fenway to fall to 3-10 on the season.Īnd, from that point on, they didn’t lose another one until the one that mattered most, going a perfect 6-0 in the regular season before the worst single-game loss imaginable.Ĭhoose to forget the Stanton grand slam if you’d like, or the Judge double/Stanton bomb off Adam Ottavino the next night. Same with the Domingo German No-Hitter That Wasn’t. The Chad Green Meltdown had yet to happen. They won the next night, too, to close the door on a series that featured several COVID absences, Hoy Park, Trey Amburgey and Ryan LaMarre.īut … then things got bleak once again. The Yanks began their summer sprint 0-7 against the Sox, their first win of the year coming in a six-inning game on July 17 that you might remember because someone chucked something at Alex Verdugo from the left-field bleachers. The two teams did not play each other until June 4, which definitely feels like a pandemic vestige where ownership was willing to sacrifice attendance/cancellations in April, but wasn’t willing to give up any Yankees-Red Sox games. The Yankees ended up 9-10 against the Red Sox in 2021, but it took them quite a while to dig out of their half-season hole (a hole of their own making). anoKyP88n1- Max Mannis DecemNew York Yankees record vs. I'm thinking about Jonathan Loaisiga again. The 2021 Yankees delivered far more heartache than any 92-win team had any right to, and it all ended with a brutal defeat in the Wild Card Game to … the Boston Red Sox, of course.īut prior to the season clattering to the turf (and Boston eventually joining the Yanks on the couch before the World Series, too), things actually flipped rather spectacularly midway through the campaign. Turns out? We somehow got exactly half of that goal accomplished, but not necessarily the portion most of us would’ve preferred, if given the choice.įollowing some of the most heart-rending losses we’ve ever experienced at Fenway Park - non-playoff division - the Yankees managed to win some nail-biters of their own in the late summer, including the one positive memory we’ll ever have of Andrew Heaney. 500 plateau and ending in a World Series win like that last instance. Our only hope was that things could miraculously swing in New York’s direction in the second half, wrapping the season series around its typical. When the season began - OK, through the early portion of the summer - this felt like an exact redux of 2009, when Boston whomped the Bombers so badly that most of us wished for an early death. The 2021 version of the New York Yankees– Boston Red Sox rivalry certainly turned on a dime, didn’t it?
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