The New York Yankees misplaced 8-5 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday evening (field rating), extending a current stretch of poor play at residence. The Yankees have now misplaced three consecutive residence video games and 5 of their final seven general. What’s extra is that New York is now 6-16 in its final 22 video games at Yankee Stadium, its worst stretch since 1917.
We’ll notice that 22 video games is an arbitrary endpoint, and that the Yankees nonetheless have a successful document at residence for the season. Nonetheless, it is a notable incidence at any time when a staff suffers by their worst stretch of play as a bunch because the days of House Run Baker and Tim Hendryx. This stretch can also be the primary time since that 1917 season the Yankees have misplaced 16 of twenty-two residence video games, although they did drop 15 of twenty-two in 2003. Chances are you’ll recall that as a season by which they went on to win the American League pennant.
Friday’s recreation included some controversy on the Yankees facet, as supervisor Aaron Boone benched second baseman Gleyber Torres following a baserunning blunder. Torres, it ought to be famous, is again within the lineup for Saturday’s matinee towards the Blue Jays (GameTracker).
Earlier than that recreation will get underway, we needed to dish on three issues value understanding in regards to the Yankees’ residence struggles.
1. Latest growth
You would possibly suppose that, for the Yankees to endure their worst residence stretch in a century, they will need to have constructed a staff that is wholly incompatible with their park. That overlooks some essential context — specifically, that these Yankees excelled at residence early on.
Certainly, the Yankees received 21 of their first 29 video games performed this season at Yankee Stadium. For these not wanting to waste a second of their Saturdays toying round with a calculator, that prorates to 117 wins over the course of a 162-game schedule. (The Main League Baseball document for many staff wins in a single season is 116.)
On condition that the Yankees have not overhauled their roster in the course of the interim stretch, and on condition that we do not see an actual underlying cause to imagine there’s extra to it than this, we’re inclined to categorise each excessive stretches because the form of bizarre statistical developments that occur over the course of a baseball season.
2. Did not pack troubles on highway journey
A part of what made Friday’s loss towards the Blue Jays so irritating for the Yankees is that it got here after a run of scorching play. The Yankees entered having received 5 consecutive contests, all on the highway. That stretch started with a collection win towards the Boston Purple Sox and carried over right into a three-game sweep towards the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Yankees, because it seems, have been dominant on the highway all yr. They’re now 38-22 — a 103-win tempo over 162 video games — with a plus-93 run differential. The Yankees, then, have outscored their opponents by greater than 1.5 runs per recreation.
3. Turnaround wanted
Whereas we do not imagine there’s greater than statistical noise at play behind New York’s residence struggles, it is clear that the Yankees want to show issues round in the event that they’re severe about taking residence their second American League East crown in three years.
The Yankees have performed 9 extra highway video games than residence video games so far, that means that their schedule is slanted closely in favor of residence video games the remainder of the way in which. That features an ongoing nine-game homestand that can see them play the Los Angeles Angels and Texas Rangers along with this weekend’s set towards the Blue Jays.
It is value noting that the Yankees have solely three video games remaining towards the Baltimore Orioles, their competitors within the East. These video games, fittingly sufficient, will happen at residence and over the last week of the common season.
