1. The Yankees scored one run on Wednesday and lost 3-1, losing a three-game home series to the under-.500, going nowhere Cardinals. The offense turned in its latest pathetic effort, going 4-for-30 with 10 strikeouts against five different pitchers, and Will Warren failed to build on his last start against the Cubs, allowing eight baserunners and three earned runs in 5 1/3 innings.

2. Trent Grisham put together his latest 0-for at the plate, going 0-for-5 with a strikeout. Offering Grisham the $22 million qualifying offer was a horrible decision in real time. This isn’t second-guessing after 379 miserable plate appearances for someone hitting eight percent worse than league average.

These are Grisham’s OPS+ by season since becoming a full-time player in 2021:

2021: 106
2022: 81
2023: 84
2024 (only a part-time player): 91
2025: 123

Which of those numbers is unlike the others? Last season, of course, when Grisham hit 34 home runs, 17 more than he had hit in any other season. Sure enough, his OPS+ is down to 92 this season and he has 12 home runs. He’s hitting the ball out once every 32 plate appearances. Last season, it was once every 17. He’s hitting .211/.310/.379, and yet, he continues to lead off for the Yankees. He’s 6-for-54 with a .111/.238/.204 slash line as the first hitter of the game. He has a .588 OPS when he leads off any inning. How is it that after 115 games of this he’s still batting first? And the answer isn’t because Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger are hurt because none of them bats first. It’s unacceptable and irresponsible that Grisham is still leading off and if he’s doing so again on Friday night in the series opener against the Braves, I may openly root against the Yankees. If they don’t care to provide the best possible lineup then why should I care if they win?

3. Ben Rice went hitless, but did provide three walks. Rice has homered once in the last two weeks, and when he isn’t hitting the ball over the wall, he’s not doing much else. He’s 6-for-50 with 19 strikeouts and a .474 OPS over the last two weeks.

Luis Garcia also went hitless as did Spencer Jones. The Yankees sent Jasson Dominguez down in favor of Jones, and with Judge and Bellinger out, Jones is getting everyday playing time and not doing much with it. His last hit came last Saturday at Wrigley Field.

Jazz Chisholm and Ryan McMahon also went hitless, but I think that’s a given from those two at this point. They did draw walks, but put either of those two up in a big spot with runners on and the chance to tie or take a lead in the game, and they will fail, just like they did on Wednesday.

4. It would seem to be a problem that George Lombard Jr., who has two days of being a major leaguer to his name, provides the most competitive plate appearances on the team. Lombard Jr. had a seven-pitch groundout and singled after falling behind 0-2 before striking out in his final two at-bats. Not only is it a problem that Lombard Jr. provides the best quality plate appearances, but it’s also a problem that the team needs him to be much more than a recently-called-up rookie because all of the veterans on the team suck.

5. No one sucks more than Austin Wells. The Yankees’ failure to get another catcher at the trade deadline is deplorable. They knew Wells and J.C. Escarra weren’t a worthy tandem last year then ran it back with them this year, eventually admitting Escarra can’t hit major-league pitching (despite Aaron Boone saying he would start on most teams in the majors) and replacing him with Ali Sanchez, who also can’t hit. The Yankees would be better off taking an automatic out at the catcher position, or at least having their catchers not go to the plate with a bat. The first option prevents them from hitting into rally-ending double plays, which is a Wells staple, and the second option allows them to potentially be walked or hit by a pitch. Wells should be in Triple-A with his best friend Anthony Volpe and he should be (and should have already been) removed from the future plans for the team like his best friend.

6. We’re at the point where it’s going to be hard to win the division unless the Rays collapse. The Rays could play .500 baseball from here on out and they would finish with 92 wins. For the Yankees to get to 92 wins, they have to go 28-19. There’s nothing to suggest the Rays are going to play .500 baseball for the remaining 30 percent of the season. And similarly, there’s nothing to suggest the Yankees are going play .596 baseball.

Sure, the Yankees still have four-game series left with the Rays and Red Sox, but does anyone think the Yankees will do anything more than split both of those series at best? The Rays and Red Sox also have a three-game series left against each other, so the Yankees will lose ground on one team no matter what with any loss during those three games. It’s getting late early for the Yankees.

7. Not in terms of making the playoffs. That’s a given since the AL is a joke and the final wild card currently belongs to the under-.500 Rangers, and it’s possible an under-.500 team will reach the postseason. It’s getting late early in terms of having any advantage in the postseason. The first-round bye and being able to set your rotation and have home-field advantage in the ALDS is unlikely (FanGraphs gives the Yankees a 20 percent chance to win the division). Having home-field advantage for all three games of the best-of-3 Wild Card Series is also fading. The Yankees had a 15-game lead in the loss column over the Red Sox at the end of June. They are now tied in the loss column.

8. The Red Sox are on a seven-game winning streak and are 31-5 in their last 36 games. Guess who started the 31-5 run for them? Your 2026 Yankees, when they got swept in four games at Fenway Park to end June. The Yankees scored nine runs in those four games and one of the nine was an automatic runner, so they scored eight runs in four games in the most hitter-friendly environment in the world. The Red Sox’ next six opponents are the Athletics, Blue Jays, Pirates, Diamondbacks, Giants and Marlins. The only potentially postseason team in the group is the Diamondbacks, who currently hold the third-and-final wild-card berth in the NL. That’s 19 games against teams that are .500 or worse. Teams that are going nowhere, have little to play for and are counting down the days until the offseason.

What the Red Sox are doing is the actual Impossible Dream season. Forget 1967. Winning 31 of 36 with the roster they have is truly absurd. They were left for dead when the Yankees arrived at Fenway to close out June, but then the defense fell apart behind Schlittler as Amed Rosario gave the Red Sox season-saving CPR and they haven’t looked back. Willson Contreras is having the best season of his career at age 34, Caleb Durbin is batting fucking cleanup and Masataka Yoshida is hitting like Hideki Matsui. Everything they are doing defies logic, math, physics, you name it.

9. Prior to Wednesday’s loss I wrote that the offense’s ceiling for the game was likely three runs and they scored once. Three runs for this team feels like 13. In reverse chronological order, they have scored 1, 2, 7, 2, 2, 2, 1, 5 and 3 runs dating back to July 28. The 7 came in the game in a game they lost after overcoming a six-run deficit. The 5 came in an extra-inning game, in which one run was an automatic runner — a game in which they had Cam Schlittler on the mound in the seventh inning with a four-run lead and lost. The Yankees have one way to win at the moment: get an outstanding pitching performance and score two runs. That’s it. A quality start isn’t good enough to give them a chance to win. They need near perfection. They need something like six scoreless innings to have a chance.

10. That’s not a recipe for success in Major League Baseball. It may work from time to time against the White Sox or Cardinals, but it’s not going to work against the Braves who arrive in the Bronx this weekend riding an eight-game winning streak and are 25 games over .500. While the Yankees are battling the Braves, the Rays will be playing the fraudulent Mariners and the Red Sox will be playing the second-worst AL team in the Athletics. The Yankees will very likely be in third place in the AL East by this weekend.

1. Cam Schlittler’s performance in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series against the Red Sox last October. That’s the last time I felt as good watching a Yankees game as I did on Tuesday night for George Lombard Jr.’s debut. It was so much more than just another game or another win (a much-needed win with both the Rays and Red Sox winning). It signified change at a position that has been a failure over the last four seasons. It signified the promise that for the foreseeable future you won’t have to question who’s playing shortstop for the Yankees on a daily basis.

2. Yes, it was just one game, but Lombard Jr. checked every box. The defense prowess lived up to the hype. The plate discipline did too. He nearly beat out a slow roller in his first plate appearance, homered in his second and walked in his third. And in between his offensive opportunities, he made routine plays in the field look routine and made difficult plays look easy. I can only assume the result of LASIK eye surgery feels like watching Lombard Jr. throw a ball to first base after watching Anthony Volpe throw a ball to first base for four years.

3. Lombard Jr. didn’t just act the part in his first major-league game on the field, he did so in his pregame media session as well, speaking like a seasoned veteran instead of a 21-year-old kid being asked to somewhat help save this slog of a season and help the Yankees do something they haven’t done in going on 17 years. He looked the part with a 6-foot-2 build, immaculate defensive footwork, a strong arm and a plan at the plate. If you could create a shortstop’s build it would be Lombard Jr. He looks straight out of central casting manning shortstop in the Yankees’ infield.

4. Down in Scranton, Volpe must have felt like Ron Burgundy watching Veronica Corningstone do his job. The Stadium crowd went crazy every time Lombard Jr. had a putout or walked to the plate and lost its minds when he homered in a way it never did for Volpe. There was Lombard Jr. turning double plays with Jazz Chisholm and batting in front of Volpe’s best friend in Austin Wells. (I like to think Wells swung at the first pitch and grounded out following Lombard Jr.’s home run to ruin the moment and prevent the curtain call the Stadium crowd was asking for.)

5. As I recently wrote, if Volpe played second base and batted ninth for the Yankees, the perception of him would be completely different. And maybe that’s how he gets back to the Yankees, as a second baseman. Because it’s clear he won’t be playing shortstop again for the Yankees. Lombard Jr. was everything I wanted him to be and needed him to be and I look forward to watching him play shortstop for the Yankees again on Wednesday and on Friday and on Saturday and hopefully every game for the next 15-plus years.

6. Ryan Weathers turned in his third straight gem with six scoreless innings and has allowed just one earned run over his last three starts. The Yankees needed another masterful performance from their starting pitcher because the offense consisted of the Lombard Jr. solo home run and a Chisholm solo home run, while going 5-for-28 with three walks and five strikeouts. They had first and third with no outs in the fourth and failed to score, had first and second with one out in the seventh and failed to score, and also had the leadoff hitter on base in two other innings and did nothing. Heliot Ramos’ Yankees debut was overshadowed by Lombard Jr. mania as the newest Yankee went 0-for-4 with a strikeout.

7. Fernando Cruz and Brent Headrick were shaky, but the overused duo along with David Bednar combined to throw three scoreless innings around four baserunners to preserve the lead and close out the win. Bednar struck out the side in the ninth.

8. How about a 10-run blowout on Wednesday before Thursday’s day off to give the bullpen a rest? The Yankees have won one game by more than three runs since July 9, and in that game, they won by four runs and the White Sox had the tying run in the on-deck circle in the ninth inning. The Yankees either win a nail-biter or lose. It’s unsustainable and it’s completely on the offense. At some point they need to start scoring more than two or three runs per game.

9. It will be Will Warren against Andre Pallante in the series finale on Wednesday. Warren is coming off his best start of the season with 6 2/3 scoreless innings at Wrigley Field. Unfortunately, when it comes to Warren, one start has no bearing on the next. He’s consistently inconsistent and could throw seven scoreless innings against the Cardinals or be pulled in the first inning. I would expect to see the same lineup for the Yankees on Wednesday against another right-hander. Pallante is a good starter, and considering the Yankees’ best offensive attribute is making mediocre-to-good starters look unhittable, I wouldn’t expect anything more than a ceiling of three runs for the offense.

10. It’s a home rubber game against an average team going nowhere and it’s a game the Yankees need to win. The Rays seemingly never lose and the Red Sox actually never lose. The Yankees have gone 14-8 over the last three weeks ago and haven’t gained anything on the Rays in the standings and have lost nearly everything to the Red Sox in the standings. If those two are going to win every day, the Yankees have to do the same. With Garcia essentially replacing Goldschmidt, Ramos replacing Dominguez and Lombard Jr. replacing Volpe and the best rotation in baseball, they have the ability to.

1. The Yankees’ season was supposed to change by 6 p.m. on August 3. Even without Aaron Judge (due to a rib injury), Giancarlo Stanton (due to a ridiculous calf injury that is in its fourth month) and Cody Bellinger (due to a hamstring injury), August 3 was going to be the day the Yankees got a new catcher, added to their bullpen and got a right-handed bat. For weeks, the Yankees were connected to Tarik Skubal and Adley Rutschman, and even the great Mason Miller. But when 6 p.m. came on Monday, the Yankees had added only a right-handed bat (with poor defense) and a left-handed bat (with poor defense). The right-handed bat (Heliot Ramos) crushes left-handed pitching, but can’t hit right-handed pitching, and the left-handed bat (Luis Garcia) crushes right-handed pitching, but can’t hit left-handed pitching, and neither has a position.

2. There was no new catcher when the clock struck 6. The Rays — the team the Yankees have been chasing for essentially three months — got a new catcher. The Red Sox — the team that the Yankees once led by 15 games in the loss column and now lead by one game — got a new catcher.

There was no bullpen help. Despite an abundance of high-end relievers being dealt, the Yankees didn’t add a single arm to their overworked, top-heavy bullpen.

3. The Yankees needed a right-handed bat because Judge is out indefinitely and Stanton heals at a glacial pace. They needed a right-handed bat because Anthony Volpe is no longer a major leaguer and neither is Jasson Dominguez. They needed a right-handed bat because they believed Paul Goldschmidt could withstand a six-month season. They needed a right-handed bat because Amed Rosario isn’t hitting lefties. They needed a right-handed bat because they designated Randal Grichuk for assignment in April after very little playing time. (Grichuk started 0-for-13 as a Yankee then went 6-for-18 with four doubles before being DFA’d. He has an .880 OPS since.) So the Yankees traded their No. 5 and No. 13 prospects for Ramos.

The Yankees didn’t need another left-handed bat, but what they did need was offense, any semblance of major-league offense after scoring 32 runs during their 10-game road trip. You may think 32 runs in 10 games and abysmal, but it’s actually worse than it looks. Nine of the 32 runs came in one game and one of the runs was an automatic runner in extra innings. Not only that, but the Yankees played four extra innings on the trip and scored the automatic runner once. So the Yankees traded for Garcia to give them a quality major-league hitter not named Ben Rice in their current lineup.

Off the field, the deadline was a disaster for the Yankees. On the field, it was worse.

4. After walking 26 batters in 23 starts this season, Cam Schlittler walked five Cardinals in three innings on Monday. He walked the first batter of the game on four pitches and gave up a one-out, two-run home run. He then walked the fourth batter of the game and gave up a line-drive single before getting out of the inning with a double play.

In the second, Schlittler walked the leadoff hitter again and then gave up a run-scoring double on an 0-2 pitch. He walked another hitter, sandwiched between striking out the side.

In the third, Schlittler walked the leadoff hitter for the third straight inning and allowed that run to score on a two-out single. After three innings, nine baserunners and 81 pitches, Schlittler was removed from the game.

The Yankees trailed 6-0 after four innings. Four earned runs against Schlittler and another two from Tim Hill after Hill allowed his latest home run. But the Yankees fought back in the fifth with back-to-back home runs: a two-run home run from Austin Wells and a solo home run from Trent Grisham to make it 6-3.

5. Still trailing 6-3 in the seventh, Ryan McMahon and Jose Caballero went back-to-back to lead off the inning and make it 6-5. Grisham hit a one-out double and Garcia brought him in with a two-run home run to give the Yankees a 7-6 lead. After last year’s post-deadline debacle in Miami, the Yankees were going to have a memorable deadline day performance on the field to make up for the shortcomings in the front office off it.

Except they weren’t. Aaron Boone had Ryan Yarbrough get the final two outs of the seventh when the game was still 6-3. It made sense to pitch Yarbrough with a three-run deficit and let him eat up the final innings if the score remained the same. But when the Yankees took the lead and were six outs away from a win in a game in which they had trailed by six runs, sending Yarbrough out for the eighth to protect the one-run lead should have never been an option. But it was for Boone. In Game 113 with the Rays having already won on the day, Boone tried to steal outs with Yarbrough. Sure enough, Yarbrough allowed a leadoff triple to begin the eighth.

6. Due to recent workloads, even though neither Fernando Cruz, Paul Blackburn, Brent Headrick nor David Bednar had pitched on back-to-back days, Boone stayed away from all of them. The Yankees’ rule that relievers can’t pitch three straight days remains idiotic and unscientific as a way of preventing injuries, but in this instance, Boone wasn’t even following that rule, he was simply not going to his best relievers because he felt they had thrown too much lately. In a winnable game against an inferior opponent, Boone was willing to lose instead of use two of his best four arms. And lose they did. Angel Chivilli relieved Yarbrough and allowed three home runs in the eighth. The Cardinals entered the inning trailing 7-6 and left it leading 13-7. Chivilli was sent down after the game. Good enough to pitch in high leverage at 10:30 p.m. Not good enough to be a Yankee at 11:30 p.m. Just like Max Schuemann was good enough to bat LEADOFF for the Yankees multiple times in the last week and then wasn’t good enough to be a Yankee after the trade for Garcia. Chivilli wasn’t the only one sent down. Volpe was sent down along with Dominguez.

7. It was a bad start for Schlittler, but it was going to end up being a good win against a bad team. Instead, it was undone by a bad manager. Everything about the day was so perfectly the Cashman/Boone Yankees. Cashman didn’t just fail to get any game-changing talent at the deadline, he failed to fulfill the few needs the Yankees absolutely had to address. Needs that exist because of moves he has made. Boone was willing to lose a winnable game and play for tomorrow to protect the arms of impending free agents when it’s unknown if they will even be needed to protect small leads in the coming days.

8. Ben Rice went 0-for-4 and is 4-for-29 with 10 strikeouts since the start of Chicago week. Jazz Chisholm went 0-for-4 and is 4-for-31 with 15 strikeouts since the start of the 10-game road trip. Maybe Chisholm just needs his teammates to remind him again that he’s “the best player in the world.” He only has 49 games remaining to hit 34 home runs and steal 20 bases.

9. The Yankees went 6-4 on the 10-game road trip to Philadelphia and Chicago. I wrote that I would have signed up for 5-5 before the trip started, but once the trip started 3-1, going 5-5 was a disappointment. The Yankees had extra-inning leads in two of the games against the White Sox and had a seventh-inning lead on Saturday against the Cubs and they lost all three games. It could have been an 8-2 or even 9-1 road trip. But much like everything with these Yankees, it was a disappointment. A disappointing road trip, followed by a disappointing deadline, followed by a disappointing game on Monday in what is becoming a disappointing season now that they are four games behind the Rays in the loss column again and just one game up on the Red Sox in the loss column. They had a 15-game lead in the loss column over the Red Sox in late June.

10. It will be Ryan Weathers against Hunter Dobbins on Tuesday. Weathers was outstanding against the Phillies and White Sox. Dobbins is the former Red Sox, who said he hated the Yankees and that his dad was drafted by them, even though his dad wasn’t drafted. The Cardinals are a bad team headed nowhere other than to the offseason after Game 162. They sold at the deadline and have no business winning a series against the Yankees in the Bronx with the Yankees in the middle of a pennant race. But if you haven’t learned by now, and if the road trip, deadline and Monday’s loss weren’t reminders, always be prepared to be disappointed by these Yankees.

1. On Sept. 1, 2011, I thought I saw the lowest Baseball IQ play I would ever see from a Yankee when Nick Swisher laid down a sacrifice bunt with a runner on first and already one out in the inning. That play stood for nearly 14 years until Aug. 2, 2025, when Jazz Chisholm was picked off first base on a pop-up to the second baseman on the infield dirt. I didn’t think there would ever be a play that could top Chisholm’s idiotic baserunning decision, believing his former teammate would drop the ball on purpose to try and erase him on the bases. Until Wednesday.

Ali Sanchez’s extra-inning gaffe was so unbelievable, so ill-advised, so patently dumb that I can’t envision it ever being topped. I believe it will stand forever as the lowest Baseball IQ play I will ever see from a Yankee (though as long as Aaron Boone is at the helm, you can’t discount how fundamentally low the Yankees may stoop). To attempt to pick off a runner at third with two outs in a one-run game when all you need to do is retire the below-league-average Andrew Benintendi to win a crucial game is so incomprehensible that I still have a hard time believing it actually happened.

2. “Me and McMahon felt that he was a little slow getting back to the base,” Sanchez said. “I just made a bad throw. I’ve got to make a better throw.”

I don’t care if the runner (Munetaka Murakami) was 10 feet off the base with his back to Camilo Doval and his eyes closed it’s a throw that can’t be made. But it’s a throw that was made and it ruined the Yankees’ chance to win the game in that inning.

And Sanchez isn’t the only one to blame. Ryan McMahon played a part in the moronic play as well.

“It was there,” McMahon said, even though it wasn’t there. “Ali and I, we just didn’t execute. We did a shit job on both ends. I’ve got to block that and he’s got to get it there. It ended up hurting us.”

Sure enough, just like he defended Chisholm last August in Miami, Boone defended his catcher and third baseman.

“We’re big leaguers,” Boone said. “We’re not going to not do things.”

So because this is the big leagues, pickoff attempts at third base with the game on the line should be accepted? What the fuck are you talking about?

3. The Yankees held a 4-0 lead in the seventh with Cam Schlittler on the mound and had a 4-1 lead after the seventh. Paul Blackburn turned back into Paul Blackburn in the eighth and blew a three-run lead after allowing back-to-back home runs, erasing and wasting the 6 1/3 innings and two-hit start from Schlittler.

The Yankees stranded a runner on third with one out in the sixth and couldn’t score after a leadoff double in the seventh. Had they been able to come through with situational hitting in either of those spots, the game never goes to extras and they win. But the game did go to extras, and the worst road extra-inning team in the majors since the automatic runner was implemented six years ago, and the worst road extra-inning team in the majors this season lost another road extra-inning game.

If you think it’s a coincidence, randomness or chance that the Yankees continue to lose road extra-inning games under Boone, you’re a fool. When situational hitting, fundamentals, sound strategy, creativity and baseball smarts are at a premium, it’s no surprise the Yankees are at their worst.

4. The Yankees failed to score in the 10th despite the top of the lineup being up. Tim Hill was able to miraculously keep the White Sox off the board in the bottom of the inning with the winning run on third and no outs, but it didn’t matter, because after the Yankees took the lead in the 11th, Sanchez and McMahon decided to be “big leaguers” as their manager called them and threw away the game. The Yankees failed to score again in the 12th, even though they had runners on the corners and no outs, and then went on to lose in the bottom of the inning.

5. On Tuesday, the Yankees scored three runs in the second inning and never scored again. On Wednesday, the Yankees scored four runs in the first inning and never scored again until extra innings, when they plated one of six baserunners. It was a typical bad offensive performance in innings two through nine and the standard disturbing performance in extra innings.

6. Trent Grisham, who gets to lead off against right-handed starters no matter what, went 0-for-5 with a walk and two strikeouts. (Grisham has hit .156/.241/.312 in July with three hits since the All-Star break ended two weeks ago.) Ben Rice went 1-for-5 with a double, walk and two strikeouts. Jasson Dominguez went 0-for-4 with a walk and strikeout. Paul Goldschmidt went 2-for-5 with a strikeout. Spencer Jones went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run and two strikeouts. Jazz Chisholm went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts. (Chisholm is 3-for-16 with 10 strikeouts on the road trip. Soon, he will hit a home run and the Yankees and YES will wonder if that is the home run that will get him going and then he will have an extended slump until the next home run and this cycle will continue until he’s no longer a Yankee.) McMahon went 1-for-5, Jose Caballero went 2-for-5 and Austin Wells went 0-for-4 with a strikeout. (We keep hearing how good Wells has looked over the last few weeks. He’s 1-for-11 on the road trip.)

7. The Yankees lost a game in which they had a four-run lead with eight outs to go and the best pitcher in the American League on the mound working a one-hitter. They lost a game in which they had the lead in the 11th inning and were one out away from the win. They lost a game in which they couldn’t situationally hit in the sixth, seventh, 10th and 12th innings, when they could have scored runs by making outs. They lost a game on a day in which the Rays won and the Red Sox won (on the road in extra innings for good measure). Their division deficit is back to three games in the loss column and their lead over the Red Sox is down to four games in the loss column.

8. It’s likely the game would have ended differently if Angel Chivilli, Brent Headrick and David Bednar had been available, but they weren’t because of recent workloads and usage. Bednar wasn’t available because he had pitched in the first two games of the series over the previous two days. If you remember, he was needed on Monday to get the last out of the game after Volpe dropped what should have been a game-ending pop-up.

9. The White Sox needed and wanted the game so badly that they had their best reliever Grant Taylor pitch across three innings, something he had never done in his 75 previous major-league appearances. Jordan Hicks — the White Sox’ version of Doval who throws 103 mph but can’t strike anyone out — ended up getting the win. Everything about the game except for the first inning and Schlittler was awful on what became the worst night of the season.

10. It’s up to Ryan Weathers to get the bad taste of Wednesday out of everyone’s mouth, though I’m not sure it’s a taste that can be removed with a single win. The combination of losing a Schlittler gem and losing on a day when the Rays and Red Sox won is going to take a long time to get over. I’m still not over the post-deadline, extra-inning game in Miami from a year ago that was the difference in the division. If the Yankees’ postseason seeding is impacted by a single game this year, I may never get over what took place at Rate Field on Thursday. Weathers pitched very well against the White Sox last month (6.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K, 1 HR) in a loss, and with the current state of the Yankees’ offense, it’s going to take an outing like that for the Yankees to win.