On June 14, the New York Yankees turned the primary workforce to succeed in 50 wins, bettering to an MLB-best 50-22 following an 8-1 victory over the Boston Pink Sox. My, oh, my, how issues have modified since then, and it might need the temperature rising underneath supervisor Aaron Boone’s seat.
As soon as the holders of the perfect file in baseball, the Yankees at the moment are 54-35, two video games again of the Baltimore Orioles (55-32) for first within the American League East. In the meantime, they’re simply 4-13 since reaching the half-century mark, and it appears Boone has few solutions for the workforce’s struggles.
After the Cincinnati Reds accomplished a three-game sweep of the Yankees with an 8-4 win on Thursday, Boone refuted questions on his membership’s confidence. However, except for saying they wanted to play higher on “all fronts,” he appeared like a supervisor slowly crumbling underneath strain, offering cliché responses much like these used final season.
“I do sense there are some guys type of going via it once you’re looking for your method and get that traction going,” Boone stated by way of the YES Community. “It is a bit of little bit of a grind proper now for a handful of men—we gotta ensure that, greatest you possibly can, you climate that storm.”
The baseball season is lengthy, and each workforce will expertise ups and downs, although the Yankees’ current downtrend is regarding at greatest. In the meantime, Boone’s feedback could be OK for a workforce working to seek out its footing early within the season, nevertheless it’s July, and New York goes backward, not ahead, with seemingly no finish in sight.
The Yankees have misplaced 5 of the final six collection, with the one exception being a four-game break up in opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays. Nonetheless, the Reds got here to city and rapidly erased any potential momentum gained, with a three-game set in opposition to their rival and red-hot Pink Sox (winners of 4 straight) looming.
