The Yankees are .500 against teams above .500.
They dropped three of 4 this weekend to the Red Sox, against whom they’ve won just two of 10 contests this season.
Aaron Boone’s bunch has been smacked around by the category of the American League this season, a combined 7-19 against Boston, Toronto, Houston and Detroit.
But beating the perfect is a challenge for an additional day.
Wrecking the worst can get them to October, too.
That is precisely what they did Monday, when the Yankees made the Nationals’ pitching staff look as if it doesn’t belong in a 10-5, series-opening destruction in The Bronx.
The Yankees (71-60) have won a pair since dropping three straight to the Red Sox and need to be more comfortable playing the NL East cellar dwellers than the AL contenders.
Ben Rice, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Jasson Domínguez drilled home runs, Cody Bellinger drove in three and each Yankees starter tallied at the least one hit for eight innings of essentially the most encouraging, cleanly played and dominant evenings of the club’s season.
The ninth inning — by which Yerry De los Santos and Mark Leiter Jr. combined to permit five runs — was less aesthetically pleasing.
On an evening that celebrated the musical “Hamilton,” Cam Schlittler (six scoreless innings) and the Yankees’ offense (12 hits, 4 walks) got the job done.
The Yankees are .500 against teams above .500.
They dropped three of 4 this weekend to the Red Sox, against whom they’ve won just two of 10 contests this season.
Aaron Boone’s bunch has been smacked around by the category of the American League this season, a combined 7-19 against Boston, Toronto, Houston and Detroit.
But beating the perfect is a challenge for an additional day.
Wrecking the worst can get them to October, too.
That is precisely what they did Monday, when the Yankees made the Nationals’ pitching staff look as if it doesn’t belong in a 10-5, series-opening destruction in The Bronx.
The Yankees (71-60) have won a pair since dropping three straight to the Red Sox and need to be more comfortable playing the NL East cellar dwellers than the AL contenders.
Ben Rice, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Jasson Domínguez drilled home runs, Cody Bellinger drove in three and each Yankees starter tallied at the least one hit for eight innings of essentially the most encouraging, cleanly played and dominant evenings of the club’s season.
The ninth inning — by which Yerry De los Santos and Mark Leiter Jr. combined to permit five runs — was less aesthetically pleasing.
On an evening that celebrated the musical “Hamilton,” Cam Schlittler (six scoreless innings) and the Yankees’ offense (12 hits, 4 walks) got the job done.
