Maybe Edwin Encarnacion just needed time to get with the program.
Emotionally. Technically.
Then again, perhaps Friday night’s performance will prove to be a temporary revival. Free advice to the gambling community, however: Don’t bet on that.
The Yankees opened their second half with a 4-0 blanking of the Blue Jays on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, with Domingo German picking up where he left off with six shutout innings and Encarnacion not channeling his first 16 games as a Yankee. Instead, the man who scratched out two singles and two doubles in his first 65 pinstriped at-bats contributed a single and a double, the latter clanging off the wall in left-center field and clearing the loaded bases to put this contest out of reach for the rebuilding Jays, Encarnacion’s former team.