BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles took batting practice Tuesday in the late-afternoon sunshine. The Yankees expected to do the same. But the sky started spitting just as Manager Joe Girardi spoke with reporters in the dugout. He peeked through the thicket of cameras and notepads and noticed the grounds crew springing to action.
“They’re covering the field?” Girardi muttered. “Of course.”
The sky is falling on these Yankees, it seems, to judge by their wretched start. They went on to lose, 4-1, and have now dropped two-thirds of their games. This time, starter Luis Severino allowed two homers and made two errors, and Alex Rodriguez hurt his hamstring while running out a grounder.