Yanks lose fifth straigh, fall out of 1st place

Well this sucks.  Another night, another wasted pitching performance due to a lineup that doesn't look like it plans on waking up any time soon.  Just flat out sucks.  And this is going to keep sucking so long as we can’t hit and the Blue Jays keep scoring a hundred runs a game.  I mean Toronto needs to cut this shit out.  I was feeling really good about tonight too.  McCann hits an absolute bomb in the second to give the Yanks a 1-0 and I’m thinking he just set the tone and the bats are about to wake up.  Then I look down at my phone and the Blue Jays are up like 10-2 in the second inning.  Like what the fuck is going on in Toronto right now?  I remember when that Tulo trade went down and everyone was like “why would they trade for another bat?”  Maybe because it’s going to transform their offense into a fucking irrepressible juggernaut and they’ll never lose a game again.  Maybe that’s why.

Meanwhile in Cleveland, CC’s pitching his heart out with a razor-thin margin for error.  The Indians were threatening all night, putting 11 runners on base in Sabathia’s six innings.  They finally broke through and knotted the game up in the fifth before taking a 2-1 lead in the 6^th.  And wouldn’t you know it, that’s all the all the runs they would need.

There were plenty of chances.  The Yanks had runners on second and third with one out in the 7^th before Didi popped up and Chris Young struck out to end the inning.  Then in the 8^th A-Rod grounded into an inning-ending double play with runners on first and second.  He and Tex combined to go 0-8.  And now after five straight losses the Yankees find themselves looking up at the Blue Jays in the division.

And while I’m still not in panic mode and will refuse to enter that phase until we near closer to the season’s end, I am scared.  There’s a difference.  And the scariest part about the way this team is playing is that they look a lot like the team that they were supposed to be.  A few days ago I chalked this funk up to being a little hiccup, but now I’m worried that this may be your 2015 New York Yankees.  Like Tex and A-Rod were not supposed to be this good this season.  Is it possible that they’re out of gas?  Ellsbury and Gardner played well over their heads for big parts of this season.  Have they both come back down to Earth?  I’m not entirely sure.  But there’s nothing here to analyze.  If these guys don’t get their shit together then we’re all in for a third straight October without baseball in the Bronx.