This series has been a disaster. The entire homestand has been a disaster, really. The Yankees are 3-6 in the first nine games of this ten-game homestand — they’re 8-14 in their last 22 home games, embarrassingly — and they’ve been thoroughly dismantled by the Blue Jays over the last 36 hours or so. The Yankees are officially closer to falling out of a wildcard spot (four games) than they are to catching the Blue Jays (4.5 games).
There’s nothing they can do about this series and homestand now though. It’s already a lost cause. They can save face with a win this afternoon behind their ace Masahiro Tanaka, who was both brilliant last time out and able to shut these same Blue Jays down in Toronto a few weeks ago. Scoring runs hasn’t been much of a problem this series — they’ve scored 17 runs in the first three games, that should have been enough — but geez, they can’t keep the Jays hitters in check. Let’s hope Tanaka can. Here is Toronto’s lineup and here is New York’s lineup:
- CF Jacoby Ellsbury
- LF Brett Gardner
- RF Carlos Beltran
- C Brian McCann
- DH Alex Rodriguez
- 3B Chase Headley
- 1B Dustin Ackley
- SS Didi Gregorius
- 2B Stephen Drew
RHP Masahiro Tanaka
It is surprisingly nice in New York today. Every weather report I checked the last few days said it was supposed to rain today, but the sky is blue and there’s only a smattering of clouds. No rain in the forecast either. This afternoon’s series finale will begin a bit after 1pm ET and you can watch on WPIX locally and TBS nationally. Enjoy. Or at least try to.
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