Game 22: No Use For A Title

I’m running out of ways to say the Yankees really need to start scoring runs, so: the Yankees really need to start scoring runs. They’re hitting .220/.292/.328 as a team in the last 16 games and only twice in those 16 games did they score more than three runs. They scored six runs once and four runs once. Ten times they’ve score two runs or fewer. Ten!

The offense has been gross. Michael Pineda hasn’t been a whole better. In fact, I’m revoking the Big Mike moniker until further notice. Twenty-seven strikeouts and five walks is great! Thirty hits and seven homers in 22 innings is not. Pineda has a 5.35 ERA (4.19 FIP) in 24 starts and 136.1 innings since his 16-strikeout game last year. That’s bad. Legit bad. The pitcher former known as Big Mike is one of many Yankees who have to get their act together. Here is the BoSox’s lineup and here is the Yanks’ lineup:

1. CF Jacoby Ellsbury
2. LF Brett Gardner
3. RF Carlos Beltran
4. 1B Mark Teixeira
5. DH Alex Rodriguez
6. C Brian McCann
7. 2B Starlin Castro
8. SS Didi Gregorius
9. 3B Chase Headley
   RHP Michael Pineda

It’s a bit cloudy and cool in Boston, but otherwise the weather is pretty nice. Tonight’s game will begin at 7:10pm ET and you can watch on WPIX locally and MLB Network nationally. First WPIX game of the year, no? Try not to throw your remote at the TV.