Yankees continue to struggle with a 6-15 record since June 13th, demonstrating inconsistency between pitching and offensive performance. In a game against the Mets, the Yankees fell behind early as Carlos Rodón allowed four runs in the first inning. Although Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a home run, the Mets quickly regained a four-run lead. The team's challenges seem compounded by defensive errors and poor baserunning, with no clear resolution in sight.
Entering today, the Yankees were 6-15 since June 13th. If you'd told me pregame that they'd drop six runs on the Mets, with Carlos Rodón on the mound, I would have been confident in victory - mistakenly confident, as it turned out. The start to this game was both eminently predictable and absolutely infuriating. The Yankees went down in order against former teammate Frankie Montas, who was a human batting-practice machine against the cellar-dwelling Pirates during his second start. The Mets came to bat and quickly got to business. The Yankees got one run back in the top of the second, but the Mets immediately restored their four-run lead, highlighting the ongoing struggles of the Yankees' offense and pitching.
When the pitching is great, the offense is silent. When the offense hits, the pitching struggles. And like Gollum slinking after the Fellowship, defensive lapses and bad baserunning always lurk just out of sight. It doesn't seem like there is a light at the end of the tunnel right now.
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