NEW YORK — All season long, Yankees players have addressed reporters in the clubhouse facing the media entrance, standing in front of the partition that’s lowered from the ceiling.
On Saturday afternoon, after the club’s seventh loss in a row, Aaron Judge stood on the other side.
An explanation wasn’t given for the change. It was seemingly an offering to the superstition gods.
Judge’s positioning in the clubhouse might’ve changed — facing his locker and the entranceway that players take to the showers and trainer’s room — but his comments remained the same.
“You get a chance to show up tomorrow at the same time and change the script,” Judge said, reiterating that the Yankees haven’t been able to produce consistently this summer, their biggest flaw. “That’s what we got to keep doing.”
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That positivity and optimism extended — unsurprisingly — to manager Aaron Boone. The skipper was a broken record in his pregame and postgame availability, insisting that even if the Yankees haven’t shown that they’re capable of suddenly going on a winning streak, or sustaining any winning ways, he believes that a “turnaround” is on the horizon.
“We’re OK,” Boone said. “I mean, we’re definitely wearing it. Not fun going through this, right? But I feel like we’re OK and I do feel like the turnaround is coming.”
Either the Yankees are refusing to publicly acknowledge that their chances of making the postseason have reached mission-critical or they haven’t truly realized what kind of run is now required for them to somehow make the playoffs.
The Yankees are eight games out of the third and final spot in the Wild Card race, a position that’s held by the surging Mariners as of Sunday morning. While the Yankees are three games below .500, on pace to win 80 games, Seattle is on a 90-win pace and 13 games above .500.
So, let’s set 90 wins as the benchmark to make it…
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