There’s no sugarcoating how much of an absolutely awful week it’s been for the New York Yankees. They haven’t won since last Friday, Gerrit Cole had to leave his start with a hamstring injury, the bullpen’s gassed, they’ve dropped back-to-back series to the terrible Orioles and Wild Card opponent Blue Jays, and they’re staring both a four-game home sweep and six-game losing streak in the face tonight with José Berríos on the bump for Toronto against an underachieving Yankees offense that looks ever-more-pitiful by the day.
That all would be enough to crack the old joke about asking Mrs.