As much as this slog of a Yankees season has become a race against time, starring Aaron Judge’s healing right wrist and featuring Aroldis Chapman’s healing left knee in a supporting role, count it also as a race against the tank.
Front and center in this storyline: How much is left in CC Sabathia’s tank?
The Yankees’ oldest player looked near-empty on Saturday afternoon, lasting just 2 ¹/u2083 innings against the checked-out Blue Jays in a close-but-no-cigar, 8-7 loss that released the boo birds early at Yankee Stadium and, following Miguel Andujar’s seventh-inning grand slam that turned it into a one-run game, let down the loyalists, extended their funk to 8-10 in their past 18 games and assured that they wouldn’t gain ground on the A’s in the race to host the Oct.