The Yankees have forgotten how to hit, pitch and field.
Since those are the appetizer, main course and dessert of baseball, the Yankees these days are starving their fans of joy. The most positive element is that they play in the AL, where I believe the “A” stands for Atrocious.
A league in which no more than four or five teams can regularly find their way above .500 covers a lot of blemishes. The Yankee troubles have dropped them from first in the AL East, but not in any big-picture danger — at least not yet. Still, the foibles of others can only camouflage so much. It is not just that the Yankees are losing — five in a row and nine of 12 — but doing so incompetently in every phase.
Their 7-3 loss Monday to the Tigers was worse than the final score and had injury upon insult. Jasson Domínguez, who has many defensive shortcomings, including a pittance of field awareness, slammed an elbow into Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s jaw while racing in to catch a fourth-inning pop-up. He said he called the ball, and Chisholm, retreating from an infield-in deployment, did not hear him. Chisholm was removed from the game and was going through concussion protocol.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
