{"id":74109,"date":"2020-09-24T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-have-one-shot-at-redemption-after-major-letdown\/"},"modified":"2020-09-24T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:34:13","slug":"yankees-have-one-shot-at-redemption-after-major-letdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-have-one-shot-at-redemption-after-major-letdown\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees have one shot at redemption after major letdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees have one shot at redemption after major letdown<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n BUFFALO \u2014 Was this a parting gift or more of a first night of Hanukkah sort of thing? An exorcism or an app<\/a>etizer?<\/p>\n

Either way, the Rays scouts monitoring Wednesday night\u2019s action at Sahlen Field had to think, \u201cThis is the way the Yankees looked when they played us!\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, the Rays\u2019 first American League East title since 2010 became official downstate, shortly after 10 o\u2019clock, when Tampa Bay disposed of the Mets, 8-5 at Citi Field. Just in case the Mets had helped out their intracity pals, however, the Yankees executed the old belt-and-suspenders fail-safe on Tampa Bay\u2019s behalf by playing one of their worst game<\/a>s of the season, an embarrassing, 14-1 defeat to the Blue Jays that marked their third blowout loss in four games (and ended 13 minutes after the Mets-Rays game).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a better baseball team than we showed out there tonight,\u201d a clearly annoyed Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n

Now we can formally notate the Yankees\u2019 regular season, COVID-shortened and all, as a disappointment, a failure to build on last year\u2019s AL East crown (which was their first since 2012). Now we turn our full attention to whether the Yankees can redeem themselves \u2014 for this season, for their last 10 years of October letdowns and for this godawful night \u2014 by winning it all.<\/p>\n

Short answer: Of course they can. They\u2019re good enough. As this game exemplified, though, many obstacles await them.<\/p>\n

Start with the increasing likelihood that the Yankees will have to play next week\u2019s wild-card series on the road. At 32-24, the AL\u2019s fifth seed, they reside two games behind the White Sox (34-22), who fell into the fourth seed Wednesday as the Twins (35-22) leapt over them into the AL Central penthouse. Even if the Yankees catch up to the White Sox in these final days of the schedule, they\u2019d lose a tiebreaker by virtue of the Chisox owning a superior intra-divisional record (currently 25-14) to the Yankees (23-16). The Yankees could win that tiebreaker with the Twins (23-17 in the AL Central), though they now trail Minnesota by 2 \u00bd games.<\/p>\n

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This regular season was a Yankees disappointment.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then turn to who likely would await the Yankees, if they survive the wild-card round, in the AL Division Series: The Rays, the current top seed, who messed the Yankees up to the tune of 8-2 in 10 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see \u2019em again,\u201d Luke Voit vowed late Wednesday of his team\u2019s top current rival.<\/p>\n

This ultra-weird campaign has deemed it awfully difficult to put your finger on the pulse of a club, and the Yankees represent as big a mystery since we all wondered who framed Roger Rabbit. From the 16-6 burst out of the gate to the 5-15 plummet to the defibrillator-like 10-0 rebound to getting outscored, 36-20 in these last four \u2014 and that\u2019s including a 12-1 win! \u2014 these Yankees have lacked the consistency of their prior two seasons under Boone.<\/p>\n

This game exemplified the \u201cdown\u201d portions of their roller coaster, as the Yankees committed four errors (two by Gary Sanchez and one each by Gleyber Torres and Luke Voit), letting down Masahiro Tanaka in a big way, and went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position, including getting nothing out of a bases-loaded, no-outs rally in the fifth when the game remained winnable. No wonder Voit said, \u201cThat was not Yankee baseball at all. \u2026 It was almost like we were the Bad News<\/a> Bears.\u201d<\/p>\n