ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Friday night time, Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone hoped the Bombers had already hit all-time low. He was incorrect. The Bombers not solely needed to put Andrew Benintendi on the injured listing earlier than the sport however suffered one other discouraging loss 2-1 at Tropicana Field.
The Yankees (79-54) have misplaced six of their final seven video games. The Rays (74-57) have clinched the sequence win, handing the Bombers their eighth sequence loss within the final 10. Tampa Bay reduce one other sport off the Yankees’ as soon as commanding lead within the American League East. The Bombers, who have been up by as many as 15.5-games this season, now maintain only a four-game lead within the division, three within the loss column.
“We understand the position we’re in and we understand that we got to do better, period,” Boone mentioned. “Hopefully more and more people get into the mix and become a part of things but the bottom line is what we’re putting out there is capable, we just got to go produce.”
But the Yankees aren’t producing runs.
Well, apart from when Aaron Judge hammers a house run. The slugger crushed his 52nd of the season to steer off the ninth inning, snapping a streak of 21 straight innings by the Bombers with out scoring a run courting again to Wednesday night time in Anaheim.
Saturday Corey Kluber held them scoreless for seven innings, scattering two hits and putting out 4. On the Yankees’ first likelihood on the day, Giancarlo Stanton bought thrown out making an attempt to take second on a wild pitch. In the sixth, with two on, Kluber struck out Judge and coaxed a floor out from DJ LeMahieu.
The offense is lacking loads proper now.
Before the sport, they positioned Benintendi on the injured listing with proper wrist irritation, however he was going to get a second opinion and Boone mentioned they weren’t sure what the difficulty precisely is. Benintendi was in an air solid within the clubhouse Saturday afternoon and it’s unclear if he will likely be a kind of the Yankees can get again within the combine with simply 29 video games to play within the common season.
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