Game 111: Blue Jays (Gausman) at Yankees (Stroman)

What a disappointing loss, it's hard to get on a roll when one of your starters can't go more than 4 innings.

Judge takes a waist high FB inner 3rd, 0-1
Takes a slider waist high, well outside, 1-1
Takes a slider 4-5 inches outside, thigh high, 2-1
Swings over a slider below and inside middle, 2-2
Takes his timeout.
Slider starts outside, letting Judge easily take, 3-2
Have no idea what Judge was looking for, takes a FB inside of middle middle for the ꓘ. Green strikes out the side on 16 pitches the last two were ꓘ's against Soto and Judge.

Yanks lose 8-5, blowing a change to take over 1st. The 5-game win streak is snapped, and they're back down to 19 games over .500 at 65-46.

They're still tied with the O's, 5 1/2 up on the Sox, 8 up on the Rays and 13 1/2 up on the Jays.

Yanks did nothing against the reputedly terrible Jays' pen, getting just 2 hits and BB with 4 K's against Cabrera, Little and Pop, who came in with ERAs of 3.59, 4.32 and 5.40, even before Green came in and slammed the door shut.

You can survive that way in the post-season because  of the off days; one of those guys goes to the pen, or is dropped from the  staff. In the regular season, you're up against it 2 games out of every 5.

I wish someone had to guts to ask him that but I doubt anyone will.

Here's my far fetched fantasy: Sometime later this month, the timeline resets and everyone goes back to April playing waaaaay over their heads and the Yanks go on a magnificent run through the end of October grabbing ring #28. I mean they played .708 ball through 2.5 months and 72 games, surely they can bookend the season that way, right?