NEW YORK — After another lackluster performance by the New York Yankees in their 4-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays Friday night, manager Aaron Boone took his team to task. «We should be ticked off right now and we need to start playing better.
Plain and simple,» Boone said after the Yankees' fifth shutout loss in the month of August, most in the majors. New York came into the month having been shut out just a total of six times. «You pour a lot into trying to shake hands at the end of the day, and we've been able to do that on balance on a really high clip this year.
We've hit a rough patch and we've got to dig ourselves out,» Boone said. «We can sit here, and I can keep answering questions and talk about it… but we've got to go do it.
And the good news is we've got all the pieces in that room to do that. I know that's coming. I know it's going to happen, but it really sucks going through it.» After their loss to Toronto in the second matchup of a four-game set, the Yankees have a 5-12 record in August, being held to two or fewer runs in eight of those games.