![]() Bully for the Yankees that this skid occurred now, in July, with plenty of time to stabilize, fortify or even super-charge a team that is still on pace for well beyond 105 victories. We’ve played a little less than that so far and haven’t pulled out some of those games we were pulling out.” We were playing about as good as you can play. “We’ve lost a handful of games in the last couple weeks, the kind of go-either-way (games) that we were winning all the time early,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. It could not have happened at a better time. The best team in baseball had played sub-.500 baseball in July, with 10 victories in 21 games this month, heading into Wednesday’s Subway Series finale. They are now a good team pocked with holes, the lineup and rotation stung by injuries and ineffectiveness, the ceiling still a championship. ![]() They were once a club on a historic pace. ![]() NEW YORK - The regression was bound to happen, because the regression almost always happens, and perhaps, in a few months, if the Yankees lift the Commissioner’s Trophy for the first time since 2009, they will be grateful the regression happened when it happened.īecause after three months of conjuring memories of the 1998 Yankees, this group has spent the past four weeks performing perilously close to the 2021 edition.
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