{"id":76744,"date":"2020-09-28T03:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T00:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-was-a-dicey-way-for-yankees-to-land-in-mlb-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T03:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T00:08:59","slug":"this-was-a-dicey-way-for-yankees-to-land-in-mlb-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-was-a-dicey-way-for-yankees-to-land-in-mlb-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"#This was a dicey way for Yankees to land in MLB playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This was a dicey way for Yankees to land in MLB playoffs<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Right at 6 o\u2019clock Sunday night, did you, as a Yankees fan, feel a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e8 vu?<\/p>\n

Or maybe you\u2019d blocked it out, as the previous series<\/a> of events didn\u2019t exactly lead to a happ<\/a>y ending.<\/p>\n

But when the Orioles did the Yankees\u2019 dirty work, disposing of the Blue Jays, 7-5, up in Buffalo as the Yankees flailed at home against the Marlins in what concluded about 15 minutes later as a 5-0 loss \u2014 giving the Yankees the fifth seed in the American League and a wild-card matchup with the Indians \u2014 it brought to mind the last day of the 2015 regular season, when the O\u2019s completed a three-game<\/a> sweep of the Yankees in Baltimore, only for the Diamondbacks to dispose of the Astros to give the Yankees hosting rights in the American League wild-card game.<\/p>\n

That proved a most pyrrhic victory, as the Yankees\u2019 season ended two nights later with a limp, 3-0 loss to Dallas Keuchel and the \u2019Stros. Those Yankees lost six of their last seven regular-season games. These Yankees lost six of their last eight.<\/p>\n

Do these Yankees have a revival in them, or are they just as cooked as their 2015 ancestors?<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we\u2019ve had a week where we haven\u2019t played our best baseball, where we\u2019re struggling a little bit,\u201d Aaron Boone said. \u201cBut I know what we\u2019re capable of. Our guys know what we\u2019re capable of. \u2026 Opportunity knocks right now. We can write the story. We don\u2019t need anyone\u2019s help.\u201d<\/p>\n

The siren immedia<\/a>tely went off at the local Irony Police precinct, as the Yankees \u2026 needed the Orioles\u2019 help to avoid getting saddled with the eighth and final seed, which would\u2019ve matched them up immediately against the dreaded Rays and secured \u201croad\u201d status (which means merely serving as the visiting team most of the time in this COVID campaign) for the entirety of the playoffs. Not that the Indians, winners of seven of their last eight and ready to throw likely AL Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber against Gerrit Cole in Game 1 Tuesday, figure to be a pushover for the highly erratic Yankees, whose 2-6 funk capped a season that can be broken into four mini-dramas: 16-6, 5-15, 10-0 and now this.<\/p>\n

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The Yankees fell to the Rays today to end their regular season.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been kind of a roller coaster,\u201d DJ LeMahieu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we\u2019ve played some baseball here recently that we\u2019d like to forget,\u201d Brett Gardner said.<\/p>\n

Actually, I\u2019d contend that the Yankees\u2019 pitching is in pretty good shape as they close down Yankee Stadium for the winter. The only key arm who heads to the playoffs with concerns is reliever Adam Ottavino. Their hitting and defense, however, look more discombobulated than President Trump\u2019s tax returns.<\/p>\n

Sunday turned into just a brutal day for the Yankees\u2019 lineup, as they went an astounding 0-for-15 (with two walks) when they had runners on base. A few nice defensive plays by the Marlins can\u2019t cover up the overall futility the Yankees displayed both on Sunday and in this season-ending stretch. As the YES Network\u2019s Seth Rothman detailed, the Yankees grounded into 15 double plays from Sept. 20 through the end of the season, the most in baseball.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always believe in our offense,\u201d Boone said, \u201cespecially if we get a few guys rolling.\u201d And while the defense performed smoothly on Sunday, you know where the red flags lie: Gary Sanchez behind the plate and Gleyber Torres at shortstop, both of whom experienced turbulence just this last week.<\/p>\n

An optimist can point to another similar entry in Yankees history: The 2000 Yankees, who wrapped up the regular season on a 3-15 swan dive. I\u2019d contend that those guys were absolute freaks, October superheroes, who reached back into their muscle memory to pull a third straight championship out of their magic hats. I\u2019d also contend that these Yankees are better than the 2015 group, which reached the tournament on the backs of Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira, both of whom had nothing left at the end.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this is a dicey way to end the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know what we\u2019re capable of,\u201d Boone vowed. \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to go out and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did Joe Girardi say something similar five years ago? Let\u2019s Google it and reconvene the middle of this coming week to discuss.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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