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- Updated: May 5, 2016
10:19 PM ET
BALTIMORE — If you want a New York Yankees’ road map to respectability, it covers a space that is 60 feet, 6 inches. For the Yankees to make some semblance of this season, they are probably going to have to pitch their way out of it.
The offense might be better than it has been — it has to be, right? — but it feels doubtful it will be anything like the unit that scored the second-most runs in baseball in 2015, which is, admittedly, a slightly counterintuitive thought considering they have basically the same players.
Masahiro Tanaka went eight shutout innings Thursday in Baltimore but got no decision as the Yankees lost in 10. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
So that will likely leave it on the starting staff to do enough to turn this last-place club into winners. If the Yankees can receive consistent …
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