Kristie Ackert, Daily News:
It's time to worry now. Deep into June and the Yankees have shown no real reason to believe they can actually turn this around. Sunday was discouraging. After losing two straight walk-off losses and talking about how they fought, the Yankees got shut down by Aaron Nola and the Phillies 7-0 at Citizens Bank Park.The Yankees (33-32) have lost three straight and seven out of their last 10 games. They dropped to one game above .500 and into fourth place in the American League East, 8.5 games behind the Rays . . .Yankees manager Aaron Boone retorted angrily when asked if he saw complacency in his dugout. "Get the hell out of here with that."This is the worst start through 65 games since the 2016 season [34-31], when the Yankees did not make the playoffs and were selling at the July deadline. . . .To add to the offensive frustrations, Odor ran into an out on the bases trying to advance to third on a ground ball in front of him. That was the Yankees' major league-leading 31st out on the bases this season. . . .Domingo German got pounded for a career-high 10 hits and a season-high seven runs in just 4.1 innings work. . . . Over the last 18 games, the Yankees have pitched to a 4.61 ERA . . .
[T]he biggest problem for the Yankees this season comes down to one issue: "Consistency."
Lately, though, they've been plenty consistent. Consistently bad.
That trend continued Sunday, as the Yankees lost for the seventh time in nine games in a 7-0 defeat to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
Domingo German was awful, the offense nonexistent and Rougned Odor became the latest Yankee to get thrown out at third base on a ground ball to the shortstop, as their fundamental baserunning skills show no signs of improving.
Their next game is Tuesday against the Blue Jays in Buffalo — a fitting setting for a team that's playing as if it belongs in the minors. . . .
[T]he Yankees have often talked about their starting pitching . . . Their starters have a 6.16 ERA in the past 14 games.
German contributed with his worst outing of the season, allowing seven runs in 4¹/₃ innings on a day the Yankees were desperate for length. . . .
[The Yankees'] offense went back into hibernation against Nola, who tossed 7²/₃ shutout innings. After LeMahieu's leadoff single in the first, the Yankees didn't get another hit until . . . two out in the sixth. . . .
The Yankees trip to Citizens Bank Park this weekend was pretty much a disaster . . . They took two losses they could not afford, their starting pitching got destroyed over both days, Aaron Judge suffered back spasms and their offense went MIA on Sunday. . . .There was no way for the Yankees to dig themselves out of the hole that German put them in. It was his worst start of the season and among the worst of his career. . . .That raises the level of concern about the Yankees pitching coming on the heels of Saturday's implosion by Jameson Taillon. The righthander . . . acquired by the Yankees this winter, could not get out of the first inning.And there is not any help on the way anytime soon.Luis Severino . . . suffered a right groin injury in his second rehab start on Saturday. Deivi Garcia is struggling in Triple-A and Clarke Schmidt, who was considered their top pitching prospect, is still ramping up after a spring elbow injury.
Do the Yankees have a glass jaw?
Do they get punched in the mouth, as the saying goes, and stay down for a while? . . .
[A] meek, 7-0 loss . . . on Sunday afternoon . . . [was] the Yankees' third straight defeat and 13th in 18 games, dropped them to fourth place in the AL East, a season-worst 8½ games behind the Rays. . . .
[Manager Aaron Boone:] "I do feel like we’re competing better" . . .
This team's character, and by consequence the effectiveness of their manager, is in serious question thanks to the two-season sample we are in the middle of collecting. . . .
Domingo German surrendered four runs in the first two frames Sunday, and the Yankees were toast against Phillies' Aaron Nola . . . How very fitting that the first runner the visitors placed in scoring position, Rougned Odor, followed his seventh-inning double by getting caught off the bag when Gio Urshela stroked a grounder to former Yankee Ronald Torreyes at shortstop. Yeesh. If these Yankees ran the bases any worse, they'd be investigated for betting on the other guys.
I am not a doctor, so I have no idea if "aback" spasms are worse than regular "back" spasms.
Add back spasms to the list of Aaron Judge injury concerns. . . .The spasms began Saturday and Judge played through them, although he went 1-for-5 with three strikeouts in the 10-inning loss. . . .Judge has . . .already dealt with soreness in his side and lower body injuries. He has so far avoided any IL stints . . .
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