After Saturday’s dramatic win over the Astros, Trent Grisham surmised that the Yankees were close to getting “really, really hot.”
Not quite.
The Yankees’ bats went really, really cold Sunday afternoon, mustering only three hits in a 7-1 loss to Houston in front of 43,658 at the Stadium.
“Obviously we’re feeling it, and we know we have to be better,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We know we have a much higher standard for ourselves and expectations. But at the same time, we’re in control of this. I wholeheartedly believe that we are going to get rolling and turn this thing around. And when it does, then you really start to build that next layer of confidence where guys are kind of feeding off each other.
“It’s all just talk right now, but that’s how I feel about it. We got to go do it