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Yankees Display Their Flaws, but Still Beat the Braves

When a team owns the second-best record in baseball in early July, leads the league in home runs and has yet to lose more than three games in a row, one needs to dig deep to find reasons to be critical of it.

And yet, there are nits to pick about the Yankees. Aside from Luis Severino, their starting pitching has been spotty. Their offense, while capable of jaw-dropping displays of power, can sometimes look punchless with runners in scoring position. Their middle relief is erratic at times, and there have been questions about whether the team is too reliant on the long ball.