There is panic. There is over-the-top worrying. There is fear that an extremely poor month of baseball means the Yankees are a bad team.
After following Saturday’s rout of the Red Sox with a quick-work 3-0 loss in Sunday night’s rubber game, the Yankees have lost 15 of 20 games and are 10-18 dating back to June 6. They aren’t hitting (four hits on Sunday) or pitching (another two homers allowed to Rafael Devers) or fielding particularly well. A 50-22 record has become 55-37.
Suddenly, they are looking up at the Orioles, three games back in the AL East, which has Yankees fans collectively freaking out.
In the long run, though, this past month isn’t important, as long as it doesn’t continue.
