Yanks Hit Rock Bottom In Labor Day Loss to Jays

Last night, on Twitter, somebody said that the Yankees' recent 13-game winning streak now seems like 5 years ago. He's right.

The Yankees began a 4-game home series with those pesky Toronto Blue Jays with a Labor Day matinee. (The days of holiday doubleheaders are long gone, now that there are ways other than simple gate receipts and player sales for baseball teams to make money.)

Jameson Taillon started, and he didn't pitch badly, going 7 innings, allowing 3 runs. But 2 came in the 1st inning, on back-to-back home runs by Marcus Semien and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. After that, the Yankees never looked like winning. They got only 7 baserunners: 5 singles and 2 errors.

Lucas Luetge pitched the 8th inning, and kept it 3-0 Toronto. But, for reasons known only to Brian Cashman (and, possibly, also to Aaron Boone), Brooks Kriskie was brought in to pitch the 9th, and he allowed home run, walk, walk, strikeout, popup, bases-loading walk, grand slam, single, popup. The boos came down harder than the rains of Hurricane Ida, and they were not so much for Kriskie as for Boone, and possibly for Cashman.

Blue Jays 8, Yankees 0. WP: Hyun Jin Ryu. No save. LP: Taillon (8-6). With 25 games to play, the Yankees are 8 1/2 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Eastern Division, and barely lead the Wild Card race.

The series continues tonight, with Gerrit Cole pitching against former Met Steven Matz. The online jokes have begun: Cole will pitch 8 innings, allow 1 unearned run, and then the bullpen will come in for the 9th inning, and the Yankees will lose 10-0.

Kriskie and Andrew Heaney are on the Yankees' major league roster. Luis Gil and Deivi Garcia are not. Gleyber Torres is still playing shortstop. Explain to me why Brian Cashman still has a job.

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