Yankees’ spiral worse than ‘rough patch’ after latest disaster defeat
NY Post
This isn’t just a “rough patch,” as manager Aaron Boone occasionally calls it. No, this isn’t just a tough stretch.
This is a Yankees team that looks like it’s in trouble. If this team wants to get where it aims to go, it better start playing like a champion.
More to the point, it needs to wake up.
This is a squad full of solid, seasoned veterans and isn’t playing like it. The 5-3, 10-inning defeat to the hated rival Red Sox on Friday before a sellout crowd at the Stadium is a new low point in a gathering storm of them.
The two-out, two-strike, ninth-inning home run to Red Sox contact man Masataka Yoshida wasn’t even the lowlight. Neither was the two-run home run by Ceddanne Rafaela in the 10th.
In falling to 4-14 over their last 18 games, the Yankees made what likely goes down as the boneheaded play of the year — a double blunder you’re more likely to see in a high school game. And what’s worse, it followed a memorable miscue the day before (more on that below).
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Dylan Garand knew the number off the top of his head. He knew that, between the regular season and playoffs, he’d logged over 160 games with AHL Hartford, and he was right. Before the Rangers recalled him Friday, Garand had served as the Wolf Pack’s goaltender 165 times.
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.
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