The New York Yankees have been one of many worst groups in baseball because the All-Star break, with avoidable errors haunting them time and time once more. In consequence, the boys in pinstripes haven’t solely fallen out of the highest spot within the AL East, however they’ve dropped beneath their hated rival the Boston Purple Sox and into third place.
A large number of errors, each psychological errors and precise scored errors within the subject have harm the Yankees throughout their current slide. Earlier than the ultimate sport of their sequence in opposition to the Marlins in Miami on Sunday, supervisor Aaron Boone pointed the thumb at himself and took the blame for a few of these errors, by way of Greg Joyce of the New York Publish.
“The fact is, I believe we needs to be higher than what our report is and that begins with me,” Boone stated, per Joyce. “We acquired to personal that.”
The errors have by no means been extra prevalent than they’ve been over the past week. Throughout Wednesday night time’s win over the Tampa Bay Rays, the sport went into further innings after Austin Wells was doubled up on the bases as a result of he forgot what number of outs there have been within the inning. Whereas the Yankees survived that blunder, the baseball gods haven’t been fairly as type to them in Miami.
New York blew an enormous lead within the first sport in opposition to the Marlins on Friday partially due to a pair of fielding errors, together with a disastrous mistake by proper fielder Jose Caballero. Regardless of holding an early 6-0 lead and 9-4 lead within the seventh inning, the Marlins got here again to win 13-12.
On Saturday night time, the Yankees recorded simply two hits and blew up on the bases the few instances that they did have runners threatening. Within the second inning, Paul Goldschmidt popped out to second base with Jazz Chisholm Jr. on first, and the second baseman inexplicably did not get again to first base earlier than being doubled off.
Boone didn’t bench Chisholm regardless of the error, and Derek Jeter laid into the Yankees as an entire for his or her current struggles after the sport. Boone clearly is aware of that it is one thing that should get rotated, and that begins with avoiding a sweep in Miami on Sunday afternoon.