OAKLAND, Calif. — The safety net, as it were, remains taut.
But the Yankees sure seem determined to test it, don’t they?
The best thing you can say about the Yankees’ trip to Northern California is that it could have gone even worse. It couldn’t have concluded in worse fashion, however, with this disastrous, alarm-sounding, 8-2 loss to the A’s on Wednesday night at Oakland Coliseum, during which their titular ace and their formerly stud catcher competed arduously, early, for the goat’s horns.
Is there any less desirable sensation for a baseball team than slogging in September?