Game 105: Yankees (Cortes) at Red Sox (Bello)

Yanks blow a 7-4 lead in the 7th with their two "best relievers" giving up 5 runs in the 7th and 8th, and unlike earlier with Nestor, there weren't any cheapies. All four hits the Sox got in the 7th and 8th were hammered: 106.4 on the Rafela HR, 99.6 on the Refsnyder single, 96.2 on Abreu's double and 107.5 on Yoshida's game winning single.

It ain't "bad luck"
It aint "oh poor baby, getting 4 outs on 2 days' rest is too much to ask".
It's not pitching good enough when it matters. Throwing the wrong pitch in the wrong spot to the wrong hitter, starting with doubling up on the FB to Rafaela, a dead-red hitter after you snuck one by him on 3-1. No business giving him a FB anywhere up in the zone, or even near the zone.
Stupid, unclutch pitching. Bad brain-work, bad execution.

Comeon now this is crazy talk. They've been hovering between 15-18 games over .500 for the last month. They aren't winning enough to gain much ground, but they're not losing enough to lose much ground either. Going under .500 when being 15 over is crazy.

They would have to finish the season 20-37 for that to happen. 

Tomorrow, Trent Grisham leads off! Genius!

Yanks continue to alternate games that they win but blow with embarrasing blowouts. Lose their 3rd straight and 23ed in 33 games to fall back to 15 games over .500 for the first time since Mid-May at 60-45. They were 49-21, .700 ball on June 13th, they're now down to .571, which if they stayed that way for the rest of the season, is 93 wins and a playoff spot
But who believes they'll hang on? Maybe if they can call up Rodriguez, and get Stanton and Rizzo back, they might play better, but who knows? And the starting pitching is still bad at least half the games. And what the starters don't bury them in, the odds are better than even the bullpen will throw it away. I said this a few years ago, and it's just as true right now:

"Too many ways to lose; not enough ways to win."

I would laugh at the prospect, but they're 10-23 in the last 33 games.

Yanks blow a chance to gain on Baltimore, and drop another game to the Sox and Jays, but not the Rays, who lost 3-2 at home.
Yanks are still 2 behind the O's, but the Sox are just 3 1/2 back again, and the Yanks got them out of their post-Break slump with a thrilling come from behind win. The Rays are 8 back, but their management sold off, so who knows how they'll react to that. Jays are 12 back of the Yanks now, they were 16 back at one point.