To say things are not going well for the Yankees is an understatement.
The team is decimated with injuries, coming off a 2-5 road trip and enter Monday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians with a 15-14 record — good for last place in the AL East.
While expectations for the Yankees remain high, manager Aaron Boone is trying to get the team through this stretch with a steady hand by reminding what he tells the team every year in spring training.
“Adversity is coming for us. Great times are coming for us, I know that,” Boone told the ‘Talkin’ Yanks’ podcast on Monday. “There’s gonna be tough moments in the season. Adversity I know is coming for us. How do we deal with it? You can’t get bogged down by it. You can’t let it beat you down. That’s one of the biggest challenges of being a big leaguer.
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“We talk about the grind of 162. You gotta be able to handle it. You gotta be able to handle the tough times and we’re in a tough stretch right now. What can we control? That we walk into that room with an edge to us, that we are going to prepare and that we’re going to compete our asses off. Handle those things right now, good times I know are gonna be around the corner. But you gotta grind through the tough times.”
The Yankees will have to continue to do that without Aaron Judge, who was again out of the lineup on Monday, although still listed on the bench, meaning no decision had been made to place him on the injured list prior to the game.
Judge has missed the last three games with a minor hip strain he first hurt while diving into third base against the Minnesota Twins last week.
The Yankees have scored just four runs in the three games without Judge and have scored more than two runs just five times in the last 14 games.
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