The goose egg reared its ugly head as soon as once more on Friday evening in The Bronx.
On one other lifeless evening for his or her offense, the Yankees had been blanked by the Blue Jays in a 4-0 loss on the Stadium.
The Yankees (73-47) misplaced for the 14th time of their final 18 video games and fell to 12-24 since July 8. Their lead atop the AL East that day was a season-high 15 ½ video games, however after Friday evening, the Blue Jays (64-54) have reduce it to eight video games — the smallest it has been since June 13.
“I don’t give a crap in regards to the lead,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “Play higher. We’ll deal with it.
“If we play like this and hold strolling away on the finish of the evening, it ain’t going to matter. If we get it collectively and play our sport, then we’ll run away.”
Kevin Gausman turned the newest pitcher to close down the Yankees, who suffered their third shutout of their final six video games and fifth within the final two weeks. Gausman scattered simply 4 hits over seven innings, permitting just one base runner to the touch second base — and that got here within the first inning.
Over their final 10 video games, the Yankees have scored simply 19 runs — eight of which got here of their wild comeback win Wednesday. That sport appears little greater than a blip on the radar for a staff that has in any other case struggled mightily on the plate.
“It’s irritating when you recognize that we’re higher than how we’re enjoying,” mentioned DJ LeMahieu, who went 0-for-4. “Simply can’t get a complete lot going. After we do, I really feel like we’re urgent a bit bit. Lots of the issues that occur if you’re not going nicely as an offense.”
Not even Aaron Choose, who entered the evening 8-for-20 in his profession in opposition to Gausman, might put the Yankees on his again. The AL MVP favourite went 0-for-2 with a stroll and is now 2-for-23 over his final seven video games in a uncommon off week, although he's removed from the one Yankee in that group.
LeMahieu is on a 4-for-28 skid. Anthony Rizzo is 6-for-38. Josh Donaldson is 6-for-37. Andrew Benintendi is 7-for-35. Gleyber Torres is 6-for-40. Isiah Kiner-Falefa is 5-for-33.
“That is distinctive in that quite a lot of them are going via a tricky interval collectively,” mentioned Boone, who was pointed throughout his postgame feedback.
Oswaldo Cabrera, enjoying his third main league sport and his first without any consideration fielder, gave the Yankees their finest second of the evening on the primary pitch of the sport, when he dedicated home-run theft. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. drilled a Jameson Taillon fastball to proper discipline, however Cabrera went again to the wall and used all of his 5-foot-10 body to tug the ball again in with a leaping seize.
The Blue Jays finally bought to Taillon for 3 runs throughout five-plus innings, together with a two-run homer from Teoscar Hernandez within the fourth inning. The way in which the Yankees are hitting nowadays, a 3-0 lead can typically really feel like 10-0.
After Donaldson’s two-out single within the first inning, Gausman retired 10 in a row earlier than Torres led off the fifth inning with a single. However Torres was rapidly erased when Kiner-Falefa grounded right into a double play.
A smattering of boos and grumbling from the sellout crowd of 46,194 adopted, which solely bought louder because the evening went on.
“We ought to be ticked off proper now,” Boone mentioned. “We have to begin enjoying higher, plain and easy.”
Boone mentioned he did get the sense that his gamers had been ticked off, which LeMahieu agreed with.
“One of many issues we preach is having that consistency and having the ability to deal with the great and the dangerous,” Boone mentioned. “However try to be a bit pissed off proper now. We now have a extremely good staff and it’s been lengthy sufficient now to the place it’s been an prolonged interval of battle. We have to do higher.”
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