Daniel Popper, Daily News:
Dellin Betances is lost.
The 6-8 righthander walked in the game-winning run in the eighth inning Wednesday afternoon at the Stadium as the Yankees fell to the Blue Jays, 7-6.
The Bombers have now lost 6 of their past 7 series. The only series they didn't drop was a four-game split last week at the White Sox.
Betances has struggled mightily with his command over the last two weeks. He issued seven walks in 2.2 innings from June 27 to July 3, and his strike-zone problems reached a new low Wednesday. He loaded the bases by walking the first three batters of the inning before striking out Jose Bautista. Then Betances misfired on a 3-2 pitch to Russell Martin to bring home the deciding run. ...
The Yankees (44-39) are 6-16 over their last 22 games.
The Yankee Stadium crowd has booed several underachieving pitchers off the mound over the years, but this time felt different.George A. King III, Post:
It felt different because this time the pitcher was Dellin Betances, and he isn't an underachiever by any standard or metric. ...
But Betances simply didn't have it on Wednesday afternoon, and he hasn't had it in his last four appearances.
Maybe it wasn't time to be concerned after one or two clunkers, but it's time to be concerned now.
The 29-year-old flamethrowing setup man faced five batters in the eighth inning and walked four of them, forcing in the deciding run as the Yankees lost for the 16th time in 22 games ...
At one point, Betances threw 10 straight balls, prompting mock cheers from the 38,691 fans in attendance. ...
In his last four appearances, Betances has given up just two hits but walked 10, hit a batter and allowed four runs in 2.2 innings. ...
The Yankees ... have dropped 9½ games in the AL East standings since June 13 ...
When the Yankees were rolling in April and May, Dellin Betances and Michael Pineda were two very big reasons why. Now with the Yankees in an epic free fall without a parachute, they are among the culprits.
Nobody did more than Betances and Pineda to hurt the Yankees on Wednesday when they absorbed a 7-6 loss to the Blue Jays in front of a sun-splashed Yankee Stadium crowd of 38,691. ...
On June 12, the Yankees led the AL East and had a four-length lead over the Red Sox. After Wednesday's loss in which they rebounded from the 5-0 ditch Pineda put them in across three-plus innings to take a lead only to see a wild Betances spit it out in the eighth, the Yankees were a season-high 4½ games back of the Red Sox before Boston played in Texas on Wednesday night.
The depressing numbers don't stop there. In their last seven series, the Yankees have lost six and split one. The last time the Yankees won consecutive games was June 11-12, which was the final two victories of a six-game winning streak. ...
[T]here are so many issues smothering the Yankees that days away from the ballpark aren't guaranteed to solve them.
And after the break, the Yankees visit Fenway Park for four games in three days ...
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