The Yankees look far more like the team we saw in April and May, less so the team that spent more than a month in baseball purgatory in June and July.
The nightcap was something of a buzzkill, sure. The Angels showed the Yankees what they showed the Mets over the weekend: A lot of the time they look just as bad as their record, which was 49-64 after theSo the Yankees wound up even-steven for their long day in The Bronx, and crossed another day off the calendar, another two games. The Orioles snuck back into a first-place tie by coming back at Toronto.
More: They look far more like the team we saw in April and May, less so the team that spent more than a month in baseball purgatory in June and July.Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge connects on an RBI single against the Los Angeles Angels in Game 1 on Aug. 4, 2024.And it’s interesting.
DJ LeMahieu is looking like a new player again. Clay Holmes looked ultra-sharp. And the offense, despite taking a month off, remains the most accomplished in baseball.DJ LeMahieu hits a double in the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Angels during Game 2 of a doubleheader on Aug. 4, 2024.He didn’t say what we heard him say so often during the bad times, what he said so often that it began to annoy Yankees fans every night the way gnats on a steamy summer night are annoying.
It’s a little too easy for the rest of us to treat 162 baseball games the same way we treat 17 football games — present company included. The very best managers aren’t affected by this syndrome, don’t even consider it. The very best of them might not always repeat it every day, as Boone did at the depths of the slump.
But they do espouse it. Boone simply did it publicly, and regularly, probably as much to show his players the faith he still had in them as anything else. And now the players have paid him back. The Yankees look like the Yankees again, regardless of what the scoreboard said at the end of close to six hours of soggy baseball Wednesday night at the Stadium.
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