Lifeless

Absolutely lifeless. The Yankees offense is looking as weak as it has looked in a very long time in this stretch. The division lead is gone, the offense is limping and the starting pitching can't ever hold on. The story of the Yankees season has been their inability to get a big hit and their buga-boo has come back to haunt them since the All-Star break. The Yankees are playing under .500 baseball since the break and have seen their ten game division lead dissipate entirely. Some action needs to be taken with this team before they are out of the playoff picture entirely. It is unacceptable for the Yankees to play the way they have played over the course of the last two months. A firing, a lineup shake-up, a pitching change- something needs to be done to fire this team up. They look lifeless and battered, having gone a week without getting more than six hits in a game. There is nothing left to say other than to watch the Yankees play out their remaining schedule and pray they find a big hit in a big spot before it is too late. Freddy Garcia was awful in 5.1 innings of work and did not keep the Yankees in the game. The Yankees hit ground ball after ground ball. Unless your name is Nick Swisher. If you were Nick Swisher, you struck out time and time again. This is becoming comical. These Yankee at-bats are following a script that is not taking any turns or edits. You can keep the script the same for each game and you would get the same result.

The lifeless Yankees have one last shot to salvage a game in this series tomorrow night as they will send their ace Hiroki Kuroda to face these mighty Rays and the rookie lefty Matt Moore. If they let another one slip away, their season is all but over as they head into Baltimore on Thursday. This season is hanging by a thread that is almost non-existant.