PHOENIX — If you offered the Yankees six wins in nine games on a trip through California and Arizona before they left The Bronx, they would have thanked and tipped you.
Yet after winning six of the first seven, the Yankees dropped the final two to the Diamondbacks, and six of nine lost some of the glow that was coming off a club that has many of its best players on the injured list.
After Zack Greinke beat the Yankees in the first game, Merrill Kelly followed the Diamondbacks’ staff ace on Wednesday and pitched them to a 3-2 victory witnessed by a Chase Field matinee crowd of 31,365.