BOSTON — Like in those home renovation TV shows where the new owners gleefully take a sledgehammer to outdated kitchen cabinets, sometimes it just feels cathartic to wreck things.
The Yankees can relate. Their offense has at various times over the last six weeks appeared tired, infirm and utterly incapable of denting the type of pitching they are likely to see in the playoffs. But occasionally, as happened again Wednesday afternoon, the Yankees take out their bats and begin to wreck things.
They hammer, bludgeon and club one baseball after another, leaving substandard pitching staffs as if they were piles of demolished sheetrock.