ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Sometimes, Clark Kent just can’t find a phone booth in time.
The Yankees remain in second place primarily because DJ LeMahieu couldn’t make three consecutive plays that he had conditioned us to believe were makeable. If their 7-2 loss to the Rays on Saturday night at Tropicana Field set them 1 ¹/u2082 games behind their perennially upstart adversaries in the AL East, rather than a half-game atop the division, the Yankees’ negative result in this mostly exciting contest served as a reminder of what they’ve already accomplished with such a dilapidated roster.