The New York Yankees entered this week with an opportunity to place some significant distance between themselves and the Baltimore Orioles within the AL East. As a substitute, they misplaced two of three video games and all however blew their lead within the division – they usually don’t appear very upset about it.
“The primary couple sequence, they’ve had their approach with us,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone advised New York Put up reporter Greg Joyce. “They’ve had the higher hand. However there’s a lengthy strategy to go in all this. You by no means like shedding, particularly in your division and up towards a staff you’re battling neck and neck with. It’s additionally a possibility to hopefully develop for us.”
Positive, there’s nonetheless numerous season left, however the Bombers have already performed greater than half of their matchups with Baltimore. The groups face one another simply six extra occasions earlier than the the beginning of the postseason, with the Orioles at present up 5-2 within the season sequence.
What’s worse for Yankees followers is the best way the Orioles accented their newest sequence win with a 17-5 drubbing that pressured New York to place catcher Jose Trevino on the mound.
Oh, and let’s not neglect how Baltimore pitching practically despatched Aaron Choose and Gleyber Torres to the IL within the first recreation of the sequence.
