Nobody anywhere can be perfect. Nobody in The Bronx can go seven innings.
If you want to go to town on Joe Girardi after the Yankees dropped their second straight to the scalding-hot Blue Jays, 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, fine with me. The manager’s sixth-inning decision to let Ivan Nova stay in the game and go after Justin Smoak with the bases loaded and one out, right after Nova issued a four-pitch walk to Edwin Encarnacion, instantly raised eyebrows. Then it dropped jaws after Smoak broke the scoreless tie by smashing an 0-and-1 hanging curveball into the seats in right-center field.