When the Yankees lead a game 3-0 after the first inning, 6-0 after the third innning and 8-0 after the fifth inning, there should be no reason to get upset, frustrated or annoyed with Aaron Boone. But the Yankees manager always finds a way.

Boone made questionable decision after questionable decision on Tuesday night against the Braves when he removed Aaron Judge in the sixth inning, didn’t allow Jordan Montgomery to pitch the seventh inning, turned to David Hale before Adam Ottavino and went to Luis Cesssa before Chad Green. Boone essentially had to do nothing other than sit back and watch his team blow out the Braves and he couldn’t even do that.

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The Yankees have lost five of seven and they haven’t looked good doing it. When they get starting pitching, they don’t hit. When they hit, their pitching sucks. When their bullpen holds a deficit, the offense can’t come back. When the offense can tack on runs, the bullpen blows the game.

On top of the losses, Aaron Boone has been as bad as ever with days off and bullpen decisions, the Yankees still can’t situationally hit, James Paxton is being treated as a hero for blowing a three-run lead and Giancarlo Stanton is once again hurt as a Yankee. It was a bad week.

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If the 2020 season began on time, Giancarlo Stanton wouldn’t have played until the shortened season actually began. He would have missed the first half of a 162-game season with a calf injury.

Stanton played in only 18 games last season and then missed a lot of the postseason with various injuries. After playing in 14 games this season (all as the designated hitter), Stanton now has a hamstring injury. When will it end with him?

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The Yankees had two hits and seven baserunners on Friday night and lost 1-0, but they didn’t lose because of their lack of baserunners. The Rays only had two hits and four baserunners and managed to get across the game’s lone run in an inning without a hit. The difference in the game was the Yankees’ situational hitting.

In a game in which Blake Snell was removed after three innings, the Yankees failed to score a leadoff double in both the seventh and eighth innings and failed to even get the runner over to third with one out. Masahiro Tanaka did his part (5 IP, 1 H) and the bullpen did theirs (3 IP, 1 H, 1 ER), but the offense let the team down.

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The Yankees went to Philadelphia for three games and only did everything they could do to win in one of them.

The Yankees haven’t clinched or won anything in 2020. Even at 9-3 they don’t have the best record in the American League or in baseball, but they are being managed like they have everything wrapped up. Things need to change this weekend in Tampa against the Yankees’ only true competition for the division.

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