ST. PETERSBURG — It was embarrassing and alarming. The Yankees performed sloppy protection behind a strong Domingo German and couldn’t get a run throughout Friday night time because the Rays shut them out 9-0 at Tropicana Field to chop the Bombers’ lead within the American League East to simply 5 video games.
“It’s just embarrassing when you get beat like that and you’re going through the struggles you are,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “I’m in charge of this team, what we’re going through right now, I know better than anyone, there’s going to be hard moments and hard times. I do think the effort is there, I think the care is there. But, we’ve set a much better standard in that room that we’ve got to start living up to it.”
The Yankees at the moment are 11 video games below .500 since July 2, when this slide started. They are 15-26 because the All-Star break and 8-12 of their final 20 video games. The Rays have gone 18-8 since August 3, when the Bombers held a 15-game lead within the American League East. With the win, the Rays closed the hole to 5 video games within the division, 4 video games within the loss column.
“Nobody likes to lose, but we’re gonna see what this team is made of,” Aaron Judge stated when requested if the group was embarrassed and pissed off. “No team has ever coasted into the postseason. and expect to go out there and win. We got to bring it every single day. So today’s over with, we gotta bring it tomorrow, plain and simple. That’s what it really comes down to pissed off, not pissed off whatever you got to bring it every single day.”
Friday, the Yankees didn’t deliver good at-bats.
The Yankees have been shut out for the twelfth time this season, the sixth time within the final 25 video games. They have been shut out six occasions within the first 107 video games of the season. The nine-run margin was their worst loss since Oct. 2, 2021 towards the Rays.
They had their probabilities, however with a depleted lineup, they went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring place. They are with out Anthony Rizzo, who had an epidural to attempt to cease the nagging again ache that has restricted him within the second half of the season. They misplaced Andrew Benintendi, arguably their finest contact hitter, to a wrist damage in the course of the sport. DJ LeMahieu is coping with a toe concern that bothers him when he swings and hasn’t had an extra-base hit since Aug. 6. Giancarlo Stanton is 3-for-26 since coming off the injured record. Gleyber Torres is hitting .189 within the second half. Judge, who went 0-for-2 with a stroll, has carried the offense, however it’s simpler for groups to pitch round him when no person else is a risk.
“At the end of the day, we haven’t been great as a team scoring with guys on base getting out and getting the big hit,” Josh Donaldson stated. “And I also think it goes down to how other teams are pitching pretty well and you gotta give them credit as well. But we need to do a better job of making things happen and I’m speaking to myself first and foremost.”
Donaldson went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts Friday night time and dedicated two errors on back-to-back performs that led to the Rays’ first run within the fourth. Only an amazing play and throw by Oswaldo Cabrera from proper discipline saved the Bombers from being down two runs at that time.
“The first one I felt like I got a misread on the hop a little bit,” Donaldson stated of the Harold Ramirez floor ball that bought him too far again. “The second one, I made the right play, to start and I thought I was going to have a really good opportunity to get him out at second, when I took my look there, he was going to make it and so I had I tried to redirect and misfired.”
Cabrera needed to are available to complete the at-bat for Andrew Benintendi within the third inning. The left fielder swung and missed on a pitch and instantly felt one thing in his proper hand/wrist space. The Yankees introduced the X-Rays on his wrist have been damaging, however Benintendi will endure an MRI on Saturday.
With or with out Benintendi, the Yankees are in a combat for his or her division now.
“We gotta bring it. We’re still first place. I don’t want to hang my hat on that and like you said, we can talk about games up and all that, but all it takes is we gotta bring it,” Judge stated. “We didn’t bring it tonight. They got our number, but that’s why you play three games in a series. That’s why we’ll be here for three days and they got the first one. We gotta bring it tomorrow.”
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