This team could use a bench clearing brawl. I'm not a big fan of those in baseball but it might fire this group up a bit.
I'm just calling this the Yankee fade. Ellsbury has had another one of his seasons ruined by injury. Gardner is having a hideous and clueless month at the plate. His July wasn't all that great either and he's back to being that glorified fourth outfielder I've tagged him as before. Arod has done nothing in August aside from the GS but along with Tex carried the offense for two months. Tex also has had a terrible August. Didi went from red hot to again being completely clueless at the plate. Beltran has by far been the best hitter in the lineup for a while now. Headley has been fine average wise but you're getting zero power out of him. That being said if you have Ellsbury leading off I would put Headley in the two spot in the lineup. He's making contact and getting on base at least. Gardner is giving nothing out of that spot.
2-0 Houston and they have the bases loaded with nobody out. They might be busting this thing wide open here.
It's just unreal that pretty much the entire lineup died. Beltran has been the only consistent bat. I didn't include McCann who while spotty is certainly putting up good offensive numbers from the catcher position. Just very frustrating. I mean another series where currently they have scored 2 runs in the last 22 innings.
I don't know how the hell this team is a dozen games over 500 but as I've already said, I'm predicting now that this team finishes AT LEAST 5 games out. Remember boys & girls, you heard it here first.
Well if they drop this one they will be 12-15 in their last 27 games. I know Toronto has been on an unreal run but the Yankees are collapsing. Plus, Toronto has scored 89 more runs and have allowed 22 less. It's hard for me to believe that even with the head to head games remaining they're going to be able to beat out Toronto for this division when you just look at the numbers.
I'll try but frankly this team is an absolute bore to watch right now. They were lucky to win that 1-0 game in this series.
You pretty much knew the gig was done when the Yankees got their asses kicked by Cleveland. On the verge of losing this game and if they do they were lucky to have a game one gift to avoid the sweep. This team has showed a total lack of character in the month of August. I feel for Girardi who in his heart knows that that each time he puts a starter out there that by the 5th inning its over..
Plus, it's all happening at home. So much was made of the amount of home games left and it hasn't mattered.
At this point you can rely on 3 pitchers, Tanaka, eovaldi and severino. The hitting has ground to a halt. Gardner was also terrible the last part of last year also. Logical explanation is cannot last the whole season and needs more rest. Ells bury always seems to be hurt and can't be relied on. Like I said earlier one of he and gardner needs to be elsewhere next season. The bullpen outside of betances and miller are pretty much adding gas to the fire. I've forgotten about first already and am hoping we can hold on for a wildcard at this point. Why the hell isn't refsnyder up here? Didi as Rick pointed out went from shit to looking like he figured it out offensively back to being clueless at the plate again. Is their a worse bottom 3 of the order than young,didi and drew. If gardner was batting down there I'd have to include him also. Tex you can see already is going to be living with the calf the rest of the season. Should have dl'd him and let it heal. Now, if yesterdays running to first base on a roundball is any indicator tex is gonna look like "chester from gunsmoke" the rest of the season. Hate to see this happen to the yanks after the first 4 months were such an unexpected pleasure. Hoping things change quickly or cashman gets refsnyder and judge up here for a possible spark.
The roster needs a shakeup for sure. It's sad to bring it up again but this is a group that at the deadline the general manager felt didn't needed any help. Now 2 runs in 24 innings against Houston in this series.
