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Yankees’ surge against Orioles puts fire sale on hold
- Updated: July 21, 2016
11:46 PM ET
NEW YORK — The New York Yankees aren’t making this easy for anyone. Not for their fans, not for their ownership, not for the people entrusted with making their personnel decisions nor the people who are paid to report daily on what they could/should/might/will or won’t do at the upcoming trade deadline.
Most of all, they are not making it easy for themselves.
Just when it appeared that we could all agree on a course of action come August 1 — Sell! Sell!! SELL!!! — they go and win four in a row, including three straight from the Baltimore Orioles, knocking the O’s into a tie with the Boston Red Sox atop the AL East.
Wednesday night’s 5-0 win at Yankee Stadium vaulted the Yankees to a pinnacle they haven’t seen since April 12. Even if it is a modest achievement to be two games over .500, it at least indicates that there might be some life left in this aging, overpaid, underperforming roster.
And if they can pull off a sweep in Thursday afternoon’s finale, and the Red Sox lose to the Minnesota Twins, the Yankees will find themselves just 4 1/2 games out of first place, nearer than they’ve been to the promised land since April 27 and, believe it or not, closer to first place than their crosstown rival Mets, who only went to the World Series last year.
Michael Pineda continued the Yankees’ pitchers hot streak on Wednesday. Al Bello/Getty Images
So what to do with this team? The head says sell, the heart says hell, play it out and see how far they can take this.
Since returning to action after the All-Star break, Yankees pitching has thrown 45 scoreless innings out of 54 played. They have allowed 13 runs (12 earned) in the six games played for a team ERA of 2.00, and they have now allowed one run or less in four straight games for the first time in nearly 13 years. The bullpen hasn’t allowed a run in 28 2/3 innings, and the names aren’t just Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman, but guys like Anthony …
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