Historically, the Yankees haven’t always fared well on West Coast trips. Even when facing bad teams, your hope that any time they head out West to play games that force you to stay up until ungodly hours of the night, it’d at least be worth a split; come home at an even .500.
So when this ragtag team we’ve all come to know and love flew home Wednesday with a 6-3 record in tow, there was reason to smile and celebrate. But there was also reason to speculate.
It’s a very small sample size, but so far this year these battered Yankees are 0-5 against teams over .