Damn Yankees.
While I’m not quite old enough to have attended the 1955 Broadway opening of the musical with that title, I’m pretty sure it …
Damn Yankees. While I’m not quite old enough to have attended the 1955 Broadway opening of the musical with that title, I’m pretty sure it was the fans of other teams that used that adjective to describe the ball club from The Bronx, right? All these years later, baseball’s most famous franchise now turns its own supporters profane in early October. Yup, the 2021 Yankees honored the circuitous path that brought them here, falling short Friday night to a Rays group only half-trying,4-3 at Yankee Stadium, following a furious ninth-inning rally, which allowed the Red Sox and Blue Jays to pick up ground on them in the frenetic American League wild-card race. They did catch a late break, though, when the Mariners lost late to the Angels in Seattle,2-1, to ensure that, even in the worst-case scenario, they’d play a tiebreaker on Monday (which means that Gerrit Cole almost certainly won’t pitch Sunday on short rest). “That time of the year,” Aaron Boone said. “Tough one right there. We’ve got to turn the page quickly and get after it tomorrow.” As in so many contests this season, especially the earlier ones, the Yankees’ hitters ultimately failed to support their pitchers. Boone used many of his better relief arms to keep the deficit at 2-1, until the dam broke with Domingo German (pitching for the first time since July 31) and Albert Abreu pairing t o give up a pair of insurance runs in the top of the ninth inning.
