On June 14, the New York Yankees turned the primary group to succeed in 50 wins, enhancing 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 beneath supervisor Aaron Boone’s seat.
As soon as the holders of the perfect document in baseball, the Yankees are actually 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 group’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, other than saying they wanted to play higher on “all fronts,” he seemed like a supervisor slowly crumbling beneath stress, offering cliché responses just like these used final season.
“I do sense there are some guys sort of going by it whenever you’re looking for your manner and get that traction going,” Boone mentioned through the YES Community. “It is a bit little bit of a grind proper now for a handful of men—we gotta guarantee that, finest you’ll be able to, you climate that storm.”
The baseball season is lengthy, and each group will expertise ups and downs, although the Yankees’ current downtrend is regarding at finest. In the meantime, Boone’s feedback could be OK for a group 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 towards the Toronto Blue Jays. Nonetheless, the Reds got here to city and shortly erased any potential momentum gained, with a three-game set towards their rival and red-hot Pink Sox (winners of 4 straight) looming.
