Even lacking what hitting coach Dillon Lawson describes as “three of our prime 5 hitters,” it nonetheless was jarring to see the Yankees’ lineup shut out in back-to-back video games this week, and for the third and fourth time over a 10-day span.
Lawson acknowledges there may be “little doubt” that the American League leaders in runs scored have missed injured run producers Giancarlo Stanton and Matt Carpenter — and for the previous few days, DJ LeMahieu — or that different slumping regulars want to choose up their absent teammates.
“I feel one in all our largest strengths the whole season has been the depth of the lineup. So proper now one in all our largest strengths is now not there,” Lawson mentioned earlier than the team-wide hitting woes continued with a 3-1 loss Tuesday to the Rays on the Stadium. “The factor proper now even once we’ve bought some guys lacking from the lineup, we even have some guys which can be within the lineup which have carried out all 12 months which can be going by means of their first actual slumps since perhaps April.
“So whenever you get all of that put collectively, we simply must proceed to place our head down and push ahead.”
Aaron Hicks has been an apparent perpetrator for a lot of the season. He was held out of Tuesday’s lineup — with MVP front-runner Aaron Decide again in heart subject — after a hitless sport Monday evening, together with grounding right into a 1-2-3 double play with the bases loaded within the fourth inning of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
Lawson added that he believes slumping Josh Donaldson and Gleyber Torres “swung the bat properly” on the Yankees’ current 2-7 highway journey.
Nonetheless, Donaldson (1-for-4 Tuesday) is mired in a 3-for-25 slide with no extra-base hits or RBIs and 11 strikeouts since his four-hit sport Aug. 8 in Seattle. Torres has three hits up to now two video games since halting an 0-for-22 skid Monday evening. Andrew Benintendi singled and tripled in three journeys Tuesday, however he's batting .211 with a .657 OPS in 18 video games following a July 27 commerce from the Royals.
Decide, the MLB chief in residence runs, can’t be anticipated to do all of it for a lineup that has averaged 2.75 runs over its previous 12 video games — after placing up 5.4 per sport over its first 105 contests.
“Even when issues had been going proper, we had been at all times questioning the method. We had been nonetheless making modifications to what we might do,” Lawson mentioned. “We had been nonetheless teaching, even when issues had been going properly. Even with Decide, with Stanton, with [Anthony] Rizzo, with DJ, nonetheless teaching them by means of nice seasons, figuring out that if it’s not proper once we’re going good, it’s most likely not proper once we’re going dangerous.”
That mindset, Lawson added, “turns into panic or second-guessing,” so he and supervisor Aaron Boone have continually preached that the Yankees can’t “relaxation on the truth that we had been profitable video games.”
“Is it good baseball? Is it an excellent course of? For us now, that provides us consolation going by means of this, figuring out that the method is nice,” Lawson mentioned. “It allowed us to play at a excessive stage earlier than. It’s continually adjusting, to not say that we’re blind to any new modifications. There’s at all times a wholesome sense of insecurity or paranoia, of ‘are we ok?’
“Now we have to proceed to get higher. Proceed pecking away and take steps ahead, although we imagine now we have the perfect offense in baseball.”
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