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“#Alarming Yankees must wake up for teams ‘they hate’ most<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Repeat after Aaron Boone: We will hit. We will slug. We trust our guys. They have a track record.<\/p>\n

About all we haven\u2019t heard from Boone yet is: The Bambino struck out plenty. Joe DiMaggio didn\u2019t get a hit in that 57th consecutive game<\/a>. The Mick struck out plenty, from both sides of the plate. Jeet went 0-for-32 once.<\/p>\n

Memo to Boone and Yankees:<\/p>\n

Wake up for Rivalry Week or else.<\/p>\n

Four games at the Stadium beginning on Memorial Day afternoon against the hated first-place Rays. Who beat the Yanks in the 2020 ALDS. Who are 6-3, and 3-0 this season at the Stadium against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey hate us,\u201d Rays reliever Ryan Thompson said on Sunday, \u201cand so it\u2019s easy for us to get more excited to play those guys. \u2026 They can talk all the talk they want, they can throw at our guys, we\u2019re going to beat them, and in the past two years, we\u2019ve definitely done that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then three games against the hated Red Sox for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

It is not the moment of truth.<\/p>\n

But it sure is A moment of truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs pissed off as I am,\u201d Boone said after Tigers 6, Yankees 2, \u201cand as we should be by the way we played, it\u2019s a bad weekend. We need to turn the page, we have an important homestand coming up against some really good opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things have unraveled so alarmingly that Boone had been asked whether his team can be good enough to turn it around.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yes, we are absolutely good enough,\u201d he said, \u201cand we need to figure it out, find a way to play cleaner baseball more consistently, because we\u2019re about to go up against some really good teams. But as frustrated as I am, I\u2019m not gonna let a bad weekend cloud what I know this team\u2019s capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n

These third-place Yankees \u2014 closer to the fourth-place Blue Jays than the Rays \u2014 looked much more like the last-place 1966 Johnny Keane-Ralph Houk Yankees than the 1998 Yankees getting swept in Detroit by the Tigers while scoring five runs in the three games.<\/p>\n

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Clint Frazier during the Yankees\u2019 loss today.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And bats out of hell are bad enough: but 0-20 with RISP until a Gleyber Torres RBI single to right in the eighth \u2026 inexcusable baserunning from Gary Sanchez getting caught between first and second to end the eighth \u2026 and three errors in the third inning, two by Torres, who pitched a fit in the dugout after the score ballooned to 6-0, when they looked more like the 1962 Casey Stengel Mets:<\/p>\n

Top of ninth: bases loaded, two outs: Judge versus Michael Fulmer. And Judge looks at a pedestrian slider for strike three.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gotta step up in those situations,\u201d Judge said.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t Anybody Here Play This Game? They return home playing like Stankees.<\/p>\n

What was so troubling on this day was the absence of urgency in every phase of the game.<\/p>\n