Aaron Judge isn’t proud of the power. Gerrit Cole is pissed off at himself for strolling the No. 8 hitter within the Blue Jays lineup. Aaron Boone slammed his hand down on the desk postgame and raised his voice. The Yankees’ horrific slide continued Saturday with a 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays on the Stadium.
It was the third straight loss for the Yankees (73-48) and ninth of their final 11 video games and fifteenth of their final 19. The Blue Jays (65-54) clinched the collection win and go for the sweep on Sunday. It was the sixth straight collection loss for the Bombers, the longest streak of collection losses since 1985.
The Blue Jays reduce the Yankees lead within the division, which was 15.5 video games on July 8, to seven video games.
“No crap. We’ve been asked all these questions,” a pissed off Boone snapped when requested concerning the slide. “We’ve answered till we’re blue within the face. We gotta exit and do it. I gotta stop answering these questions … we obtained to play higher interval.
“And the great thing is, it’s right in front of us. It’s right here, and we can fix it. It’s right here. It’s there and we can run away with this thing,” Boone mentioned after slamming his hand on the desk. “And we got the dudes in there to do it. You gotta do it.”
Right now, the Yankees can’t do a lot proper.
Cole allowed 4 runs on 5 hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out 5. Cole went heavy together with his fastball and his slider once more, getting a mixed 12 swings and misses with these two pitches.
The Yankees managed 9 hits, however not one of the clutch ones they wanted. They went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring place and are 5-for-36 with RISP on this residence stand. Gleyber Torres homered within the eighth and Estevan Florial singled in a run Saturday.
“I think every single guy got a couple of pitches to hit. I think we ended up with maybe nine hits all together, we just couldn’t come up with a big, big hit with guys on base or the big homer that we needed,” Judge mentioned. “I do know Gleyber got here with a homer late within the recreation and simply gotta have a bit of higher power within the dugout, type of push one another a bit of bit.
“We’re just missing that little bit right now and we got to come up, bring it tomorrow.”
Cole took a no-hitter into the fifth inning earlier than issues went south.
Cole struck out Matt Chapman to start out the inning, however Santiago Espinal doubled for the primary hit off the Yankees’ ace. It unraveled from there. He walked catcher Danny Jansen after which gave up a hard-hit double to Jackie Bradley Jr. off the left subject wall to drive in two runs. Raimel Tapia beat out a floor ball to shortstop and Cole slipped coming off the mound to get Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s dribbler, permitting the Blue Jays’ first baseman to succeed in — after a video evaluate.
That arrange his six-pitch battle with Alejandro Kirk.
Cole tried to go to his dependable excessive fastball and put one 100 mph at Kirk’s chest. The Blue Jays catcher hammered it for a two-run double off the left-center subject wall.
“So, in terms of what I feel like right now, I feel like I shouldn’t have freaking walked Jansen and I should have really made that play,” Cole mentioned of his afternoon. “I’d feel less bad about it if we weren’t in the rut that we were but I’d still feel bad.”
Cole’s final win was July 17 and since then he has allowed 19 earned runs over 37 innings pitched (4.35 ERA) with seven walks and 41 strikeouts.
Chapman homered off Albert Abreu for the Blue Jays’ tack-on run within the ninth inning.
The downward spiral has included a bit of little bit of all the things. The pitching has struggled, the bullpen has blown video games and most lately the offense has hit the skids.
Judge mentioned the power and angle has to alter.
“I think it just starts from the very beginning of the game, just having that kind of chip on your shoulder of we’re going to come out here and win this game. I think at times right now, even myself personally, we’re looking for someone else to come up with a big hit or do something and we can’t have that mentality,” Judge mentioned. “We gotta have that mentality that every time we step up to the plate I’m gonna be the guy that goes out there and gets it done. So we’re just missing on the past couple games and we got turned around.”
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