June 13
The long parade of Yankees on the shelf added another one Thursday, when DH/first baseman Kendrys Morales landed on the 10-day injured list with a strained left calf. ...
Acquired from Oakland on May 14, Morales struggled at the plate. In 19 games with the Yankees the 35-year-old is hitting .177 (11-for-62) with ... a .562 OPS. Those subpar numbers followed a .204 (22-for-108) average for the Athletics in 34 games.
There was no shortage of shoulders to absorb the blame for the Yankees' latest loss Thursday night. Blindfolded, it was easy to hit a target.Ken Davidoff, Post:
J.A. Happ, the Yankees' most consistent starter lately, flushed a four-run lead in the fifth inning. Adam Ottavino, a main cog in a very good bullpen, allowed a go-ahead homer to Leury Garcia in the sixth. None of the top four hitters in the Yankees' lineup got a hit. ...
[N]ot only did the Yankees fail to score in the final five frames, they failed to hit with a runner in scoring position.
And DJ LeMahieu, Aaron Hicks, Luke Voit and Gary Sanchez went a combined 0-for-16.
[R]ight now, the Yankees' rotation looks less reliable than a sweater vest in a blizzard. And their entire roster is paying the price for it. ...June 14
"Just a stretch," a tranquil-looking Aaron Boone said afterward. ... "I look forward to CC going out there [Friday] and getting us going in the right direction." ...
When J.A. Happ gave up four runs in a four-batter, fifth-inning sequence to cough up a 4-0 advantage rather efficiently ... he ensured the Yankees would go an entire turn through the rotation without recording a quality start ...
In the six contests that have since transpired [since June 6], including the usage of opener Chad Green on June 9 at Cleveland ... the Yankees' starting pitchers permitted a total of 22 earned runs over 27.1 innings in that six-game stretch, a ghastly 7.24 ERA.
Spring training was loaded with questions about the Yankees' rotation. Now, two-plus months into [the] season ... the canopy of doubt continues to smother the starters. ...Kristie Ackert, Daily News:
[Facing the White Sox in Chicago, CC] Sabathia gave up six runs (five earned) on 10 hits and walked three in 4.2 innings. ...
It was the 10th loss in 17 games for the Yankees (41-27) and Sabathia's third in three starts since coming off the injured list (right knee inflammation) on June 2. ... In those three losses, Sabathia has posted a 6.90 ERA, given up 24 hits and 12 earned runs in 15.2 innings.
In the Yankees' past six starts, not including reliever Chad Green's two-inning stint Sunday in Cleveland, the starters are 1-4 with a 7.84 ERA and have given up 42 hits (10 homers) in 31 innings. The Yankees are 1-5 in those starts. ...
After not scoring or batting with a runner in scoring position in the final five frames of Thursday night's 5-4 loss, the Yankees didn't have a batter hit with a runner on second base through five innings when they were limited to two hits and two walks.
The Yankees need something — anything — to get them out of their current funk. ...June 15
It was the third straight loss for the Yankees (41-27) and the eighth loss in the last 11 games for the Bombers. ...
Friday night, the Yankees hitters managed just four hits off [Lucas] Giolito ...
[Eloy] Jimenez just destroyed the Yankees. It was the 22-year-old's third multi-home run game — two have come against the Bombers. ... Friday night, Jiménez set a career-high for RBI with six off his two three-run homers. ...
It was the shortest start of the season for Sabathia, who allowed a season-high six runs, five earned on 10 hits over just 4.2 innings pitched.
The veteran lefty had nothing, the White Sox were pounding him ... Sabathia needed 77 pitches just to get 14 outs. ...
The Yankees set the single-season record for home runs last season and were bragging they could crush that this season. With Voit's homer, the Yankees are sixth in the majors with 108 homers on the season.
Ken Davidoff, Post:
The Yankees looked old and tired Friday night. ... [T]he upstart White Sox made the Yankees look like groggy old men ...
CC Sabathia ... fell woefully short to rising White Sox stud Lucas Giolito, who surrendered Luke Voit's solo homer in the first inning and then shut down the Yankees into the seventh. Sabathia, meanwhile, took that 1-0 lead from Voit and handed it back in a four-run, nine-batter bottom of the first. ...
Sabathia wasn't the only problem, however, just as he doesn't rank as the only headache in a starting rotation that has suddenly gone missing in action. Gio Urshela and Gleyber Torres each committed an error, each leading to a run. ...
It's time for these Yankees to get off the mat. To stop looking so old and rickety and fight once more. To stop making these White Sox, impressive yet raw, look like the 1927 Yankees.
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