{"id":75032,"date":"2020-09-25T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T04:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-playoff-run-could-be-short-if-things-dont-change-soon\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T04:10:03","slug":"yankees-playoff-run-could-be-short-if-things-dont-change-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-playoff-run-could-be-short-if-things-dont-change-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees\u2019 playoff run could be short if things don\u2019t change soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees\u2019 playoff run could be short if things don\u2019t change soon<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n BUFFALO \u2014 Moving day rapidly app<\/a>roaches, and the Yankees look like they have neither started packing nor notified their utilities nor hired the crew to transport their considerable belongings.<\/p>\n

They really need to get their act together, no?<\/p>\n

The Yankees departed the Queen City, finally, as losers once more, 4-1 to the Blue Jays at Sahlen Field, giving them five losses in seven game<\/a>s here at this temporary Major League Baseball site and, more relevant, four losses in their past five contests overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be good to get back home and get out of Buffalo,\u201d Brett Gardner said, echoing what British soldiers surely said when they evacuated Fort Niagara in 1796.<\/p>\n

This latest funk has turned the Yankees from likely wild-card-round hosts to likely visitors, meaning they\u2019ll close out their regular season in The Bronx against the Marlins this weekend then probably hit the road for as long as their 2020 continues \u2014 which feels right now like it could be just a few days.<\/p>\n

As things currently stand, they\u2019d take on the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field (worst ballpark name ever) in Chicago for the wild-card round, though five different opponents (White Sox, Twins, Indians, Rays and A\u2019s) remain possible.<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. dives safely into home plate as Kyle Higashioka applies a tag.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That uncertainty aligns with this weird Yankees campaign within this weird MLB season. The Boone Bunch\u2019s COVID-reduced journey can be broken into clear peaks and valleys: 16-6, then 5-15, then 10-0 and now 1-4 with just three games left.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe obviously are going to have to play better if we\u2019re going to advance in the postseason,\u201d Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n

Predictably (and not altogether incorrectly), the Yankees\u2019 manager classified this L as an upgrade of sorts, as they played a crisp game while Jordan Montgomery pitched very well in his regular-season farewell, striking out eight and walking none over 5\u200a\u00b9\/\u2083 innings while surrendering three runs. The offense, meanwhile, sputtered for a second straight night, though at least this time it carried the excuse of facing an All-Star in Hyun Jin Ryu \u2014 who further justified the Jays\u2019 heavy investment in him by winning the game that clinched Toronto\u2019s first playoff berth since 2016.<\/p>\n