Aaron Boone took a protracted pause, the Yankee supervisor’s exasperation hanging within the air.
His crew had simply completed its last residence recreation of the season with a 3-1 loss to the Orioles on Sunday afternoon, one which got here with a furtherance of all the problems which have plagued the Yankees’ bullpen not too long ago.
To recap: Zack Britton is out for the remainder of the season with left arm fatigue, Clay Holmes is probably going out for the remainder of the common season with a shoulder challenge. On prime of that, Ron Marinaccio left Sunday’s recreation with a shin challenge and Aroldis Chapman was the dropping pitcher on Sunday, issuing three walks in a two-run, Little League-style seventh inning. Boone, afterwards, was requested whether or not he was involved about Chapman, who has skilled a precipitous decline this season.
“Um, yeah,” he lastly answered. “We simply talked about that. So yeah. Positive, it’s a priority.”
Since getting back from his tattoo-induced absence, Chapman had been kind of high quality, struggling a bit together with his management however not permitting a run in 5 appearances. Then got here Sunday, when all the problems that plagued him earlier within the season got here roaring again, and so too did questions on whether or not he will likely be worthy of a postseason roster spot.
The troubles began with a play that wasn’t fully Chapman’s fault, a weak floor ball to 3rd that Josh Donaldson bobbled and was in the end scored a success. However Chapman then walked three of the following 4 hitters, main Boone gave him the hook and usher in Marinaccio to complete the seventh.
“Nothing particularly,” Chapman mentioned via an interpreter, concerning his points discovering the zone. “It’s simply there, haven’t been executing constant strikes. Been one thing that has occurred to me this season.”
If Chapman was pitching to the extent he has prior to now, the Yankees can be going into the postseason depending on him as the one certain factor within the again finish of their bullpen. As a substitute, they head into the ultimate collection of the common season in Texas together with his postseason standing fully in query.
“He simply didn’t rein it in fairly sufficient,” Boone mentioned. “Didn’t get fully wild and every thing, so he was aggressive with every hitter, after which the inning acquired kinda lengthy on him. Kinda needed to get him outta there.
“I didn’t really feel like he misplaced the zone or something an excessive amount of. I believed they put some aggressive at-bats and he simply wasn’t in a position to in the end end guys off at the moment.”
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