The sound you just heard was another baseball crashing into the second deck after a brief, towering orbit — right alongside the Yankees’ narrative arc.
Sunday afternoon in the park was not so much a picnic in the Bronx, as it was a cold, wakeup shower following a dreamy nap.
Before they were creamed by Detroit, 12-4, the Yanks had gone 11-1 at home while outscoring opponents, 87-31.
“We’re built for this ballpark,” Joe Girardi declared, before the game. But then Masahiro Tanaka’s splitters roamed way too high and the Tigers — also built for this bandbox — hammered five homers off three pitchers to provide a more realistic vision of the home team.