CLEVELAND — The bobsled to baseball hell the Yankees have been riding for too long found a brake man Thursday night. Actually they used three men to work the pedals and halt the Yankees’ agonizing descent.
In the first leg of a four-game series against the Indians that could shape what the Yankees do with regards to trades after next week’s All-Star break, the Yankees scratched back from the early deficit Ivan Nova put them in and hung a 5-4 loss on the AL Central-leading Indians in front of a quaint gathering of 23,848 at Progressive Field.
Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman worked the same game for the 16th time this year, and the Holy Trinity of Smoke recipe worked for the 15th time — but just barely.