BALTIMORE — Some of us used to believe if you dug a hole straight into the ground, you could get all the way to China.
Now the Yankees seem destined to put that old wives’ tale to the test, only with a twist: Substitute “an October vacation” for “China.”
The Yankees suffered an ugly, 8-0 loss to the Orioles on Friday night at Camden Yards, falling 3 ½ games behind Baltimore in the race for the American League’s second wild card, and while they might be able to shrug off a blowout defeat as a one-day hiccup, you’ll find no correlation between a hiccup and elbow pain.