Time Running Out on Yankees to Show They're Playoff Caliber After Red Sox Beating

NEW YORK – The New York Yankees should give their fans a refund. 

Loyal, paying customers showed up on Saturday in the Bronx to support the Yankees in a pennant race. Then, they watched them get humiliated by the ever-hated Boston Red Sox. Their division rivals were hungrier, savvier, quicker, and playing with the type of urgency that the Yankees have failed to show, time and time again. 

Loud and angry boos rained down on 161st Street, as the crowd of 45,512 voiced its displeasure at wasting a warm and sunny, summer weekend afternoon watching a Yankees team surrender instead of making a statement.

A game that started out with the New York bats being over-matched by Boston ace Garrett Crochet ended in a disastrous 12-1 blowout that marked the Yankees’ eighth consecutive loss against the Red Sox. Boston scored seven runs in the ninth inning, aided by more of the Yankees’ sloppy play. Throughout this weekend’s series, the Yankees have committed more errors (5) than runs scored (4). The Bronx Bombers were out-hit 17-7 on Saturday alone, as they fell to 1-8 on the season against the Red Sox. 

It doesn’t get worse than that. 

"We’re definitely – I can only speak for myself – definitely angry," said Yankees captain Aaron Judge. "Especially against your rivals, you don't like the show we've had here at home. So, just got to step up. That's it, gotta step up. 

"Everybody in this room’s gotta play a little bit better. Pick it up a notch, and go out there and take care of business tomorrow. Nothing we can do about the past 100 or something games we’ve played. We gotta focus on what we can do now, and that's all you can do."

What can the Yankees do now to drastically improve the way they’ve been playing? To start, they can go back