It is difficult to be critical of a first-place team, even one that loses six games in a row to two teams struggling to win more often than they lose.
But now the Yankees have lost seven in a row. And for the first time in a month, they are not a first-place team.
Let the questions begin.
Despite a mini Home Run Derby staged by Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez, the two brightest hopes for the team’s future, the Yankees lost to the Los Angeles Angels, 8-3, in a game that looked much like those played by Yankees teams of the darker recent past.