The Yankees opened Sunday with a 10-game lead in the AL East that they built in little more than a month.
Before their series finale against the Rockies, with the Yankees looking for their sixth straight win, Aaron Boone was asked how his team would be able to maintain an edge as the Rays and Red Sox fell far behind them in the division.
“I don’t worry so much about that,” Boone said. “They’re hungry. It’s on all of us to make sure we remain that way.”
But on a second straight day when the game-time temperature was 94 degrees, the Yankees finally turned in a clunker in The Bronx, losing 8-4 to Colorado, which snapped a six-game losing streak with the victory.