There was jubilation in The Bronx last Thursday, excitement about the Yankees sending the Red Sox home in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n
Somewhat lost amid the rave reviews of rookie Cam Schlittler\u2019s memorable outing<\/a> was the underwhelming offensive performance in that three-game series. The Yankees moved on in spite of their lineup\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p>\n It hasn\u2019t gotten better in the ALDS, a major reason the Yankees will face elimination in Game 3<\/a> in The Bronx trailing 2-0. At least, when the first two games were competitive. The Yankees rallying for seven runs in Game 2<\/a> after falling behind 12-0 doesn\u2019t count. It was cosmetic in what ended up a 13-7 Blue Jays victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n Look, the pitching has been abysmal. Max Fried laid a complete egg<\/a> on Sunday, hammered for seven earned runs in three-plus innings. On Saturday, the bullpen led by Luke Weaver<\/a> turned a close game into a rout after Luis Gil was ineffective<\/a> in 2 \u2154 shaky innings. You\u2019re not winning games by allowing 23 runs in two games, as the Yankees have so far in the ALDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was jubilation in The Bronx last Thursday, excitement about the Yankees sending the Red Sox home in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[3090,27432,1266,61637,2228,2229,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-281827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aaron-judge","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115327610741711384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}