KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Yankees didn’t hit, pitched worse and continued to field poorly on Sunday.
Predictably a 6-0 loss to the Royals followed.
Perhaps you can cross off Chris Capuano’s unacceptable three-plus innings as rust, because it was his first start of the season. The bats looked like a lineup that had played 30 games in 31 days. But the leaky defense is alarming and needs to be fixed quickly, because the Yankees don’t score enough runs or pitch well enough to overcome the free ones they give away.
“If you want to be successful you have to play good defense,’’ manager Joe Girardi said after watching third baseman Chase Headley and reliever Esmil Rogers commit throwing errors.