Baseball is a strange sport. Despite the records, the offense, the pitching, and everything that separates these two clubs in terms of talent, for some reason the Yankees seem to struggle against the Cleveland Indians this year. That's baseball for you. Even though Tanaka was not as sharp as he was against the Blue Jays, yesterday was still a very winnable game by normal Yankee offense standards. Justin Wilson's bad inning kind of put it away, but there were still plenty of innings before that in which they could have done something.
Why, let's take the bottom of the 8th inning for example.