Source: NJ.com
"I don’t know. Just a weird couple of days for us" said DJ LeMahieu. "We just battled, had the same mindset we had all season. It was just a weird couple of days with us offensively. They have such a good staff. I don’t know if it’s the building or the pitchers or both but like I said, overall, it’s a weird couple of days for us offensively."
Rays' right-hand pitcher Charlie Morton shut the Yanks out, throwing six shutout innings.
Rays' right-hand pitcher Charlie Morton shut the Yanks out, throwing six shutout innings.
Source: Newsday
"If you’re not really on top of your game up and down the lineup they can have nights like this. Especially when they turn to Charlie, who really been their ace. When he’s on top of his game, but no question these two games, they kept us quiet," said Boone.
Coming up, we have our final series in Texas. We also have our playoff rotation ready with James Paxton, Luis Severino, and Masahiro Tanaka started in the AL Division games, with JA Happ and CC Sabathia coming out of the bullpen.
What's left is to get our lineup back intact and keep morale high.
“We know we’ve got a really good team. Personally, I feel like a little bit struggle at the home plate. The ballpark too is a little different. Two games we lost, we’ll continue to the next series and prepare mentally for the playoffs,” Gleyber Torres said.
--Missy O'Rourke
BYB Contributor
Twitter: @missy_orourke
Well we should not take them lightly , that said if we can get Torres to go back and be the hitter who doesn't try to hit a home run on every swing and go back to the hitter who punish pitchers who make mistakes Will help.
ReplyDeleteGet Gardner to quit taking strikes down the middle and chirping at umpires on close strike 3 calls will help.
Gio has started swinging at pitches out of the zone something he rarely did this year until late.
Didi is chasing which he has always done but has done it more frequently in September.Voit is hurt , he won't admit it because he would rather play and hurt the team than to have gotten healthy.Hisballs he hitting are just not traveling and Voit's swing is not as hard , more like not finishing .Judge will always see a lot of breaking balls it is his weakness and he just can't seem to lay off like used to.
All the hitters on the Yankees have trouble with pitchers with good curve balls. Tampa and Oakland have a couple of good curve ball pitchers and Houston does to but two of those teams should be eliminated by the time the Yankees play in the ALCS.That is if they defeat the Twins.The key to this series is who will homer the most , the Yankees starting pitching give them up a lot.