Yankees showing no signs of life

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BOSTON — Choose your adjective: Repetitive. Monotonous. Dispiriting. Same-old/same-old.

It goes something like this: New York Yankees fall behind early. Yankees don’t hit. Yankees lose.

It happened again Saturday night at Fenway Park, as they fell behind 2-0 after two innings. The way this offense is hitting — or not hitting — it felt more like 20-0.

By the time it was 4-0 after six innings, the game was pretty much over, because the Yankees have scored more than four runs in any one game only once since April 9, a stretch of 17 games. Not surprisingly, they have lost 12 of those games.

For a team that insists it is not pressing, there were an awful lot of drawn faces, tight lips and bulging neck veins in the postgame clubhouse. And that was just the manager.

The Yankees are not a happy ship, and despite Joe Girardi’s insistence that his team will ultimately play to the proverbial “back of the baseball card,” it might be time to realize that everyone’s baseball card, even Babe Ruth’s, shows a steady decline as the players on the front side get older. It’s a scientific certainty as dependable as Boyle’s Law from your seventh-grade chemistry class: As age increases, productivity decreases.

Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees are looking everywhere to find a spark to bolster their anemic offense. Jim Rogash/Getty Images

The Yankees have a whole lot of advancing age and a whole lot of declining production, and it’s getting harder and harder to believe that somehow this club will defy the laws of nature and reverse that trend this season.

Their 8-0 loss to the Red Sox on Saturday night was their 14th in the month of April. Their 8-14 record is the …

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