It was a pretty awful weekend in the Bronx. It started with a really boring Thursday night loss to the Indians in which Josh Tomlin tossed a gem after coming into the game with an 11.57 lifetime ERA in Yankee Stadium. Another loss to Carlos Carrasco on Friday before Luis Severino was able to get into the win column Saturday for the first time in his major league career. Sunday saw a bad CC Sabathia get rapped around before exiting in the third inning with a knee injury, forcing the Yankees to once again navigate almost an entire game with their bullpen after a starter leaving prematurely due to injury.
You can chalk it up to the Indians having the Yankees number but this isn't what championship teams do. Certainly not ones who are fighting tooth and nail to win a division and need every game they can get. You can't let a cellar-dweller come into your house and take three of four from you while the Blue Jays are destroying every one in their path.
A-Rod should be back in the lineup Monday and nobody knows what's going on with Tex. He's missed six straight games and is still considered day-to-day. Bird has done a nice job in his stead but they need him back. He was playing like an MVP for most of this season and without him and the A-Rod of April-July hitting in the middle of the order this is lineup is completely ordinary.
As for CC, anybody who's paid attention to this team knows that on a scale from 'this doesn't matter at all' to 'this might actually be a good thing' this probably rates right around the middle. It sucks because everybody loves CC but he wasn't going to factor into the playoff equation and quite honestly the timing couldn't be more perfect with PIneda slated to return on Wednesday. You'll probably see Bryan Mitchell at some point to help push everybody back a few times but CC was essentially giving you replacement level production. Granted he'd been pitching better lately but they drop-off shouldn't be significant.
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