Corey Sipkin for the NY POSTįor those who watched them have to hustle to make the playoffs last year, and follow it up by mostly watching their competitors spend, it’s still a little hard to believe. Aaron Judge crushes a homer in the third inning. It also puts them on pace for 114 wins, same as that 1998 squad. Their 37-15 record is the best in the game. They know where they stand, and right now that’s at the top of the heap. “I think everyone in here knows how good we are,” Isiah Kiner-Falefa said. So technically, the team that won 114 games was also beatable. Even the 1998 Yankees, the modern hallmark for baseball perfection, lost 48 games. Sure, they are beatable, in the way that every team loses games here or there. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST Manny Banuelos reacts after making his Yankees debut. Manny Banuelos makes his Yankees debut Friday during the team’s win over the Tigers. The Yankees have turned out very different from what we all imagined, and very different indeed from what Walls suggested. Carpenter has four homers his first five games as a Yankee, off the scrap heap (he’s the third to do so in pinstripes, joining Dave Kingman and Eric Hinske). Surprise star Jose Trevino plus sudden hero Matt Carpenter and Anthony Rizzo all joined Judge in the homer brigade. So what was anyone expecting from the Tigers, the fashionable preseason pick who have turned out to be toothless? The Angels brought the supposed best two players in the sport here earlier this week and they left The Bronx bruised, battered and swept. This team looks so good, its biggest hurdle is the record book, as the league appears to be little challenge lately. “This is amazing … everyone knows this is a great team. I made my dream come true” Banuelos declared, triggering some teary eyes among even the hardened reporters. Gerrit Cole continues Yankees’ nearly perfect pitching in rout of Tigers But afterward, when the team had sealed its fourth straight win and eighth victory in 10 games, the talk was as much about Banuelos as the team’s two biggest stars. It was a good night,” Cole declared.Īaron Judge posted a four-hit night, including his 20th homer, as “MVP” chants rang out on Judge bobblehead night. “We banged, we played good D and Manny got in. The Yankees look a cut above the rest of MLB. Banuelos threw two shutout innings following Cole’s seven. This time, they even had room for some very nice nostalgia, and the comeback kid, Manny Banuelos, made his Yankees debut a decade after he was supposed to become the club’s next ace. The Yankees are a threat to do something special, and they nearly did so two nights is a row. It was the second straight night the Yankees’ starter threatened the history books, after Jameson Taillon carried a perfect game into the eighth the night before. Yankees ace Gerrit Cole was pitch-perfect two batters into the seventh inning before Jonathan Schoop lined a clean single to center field to halt history. The Yankees’ 13-0 victory over the Tigers on a cool night in The Bronx was the season’s most dominant performance yet. The Dodgers were supposed to be baseball’s best team, and right now they are no better than a clear second. Some nights, like Friday, it doesn’t even seem fair. The Yankees are just bludgeoning folks daily. The Yankees are very beatable in the sense that Secretariat was very beatable. Little-known, light-hitting Rays infielder Taylor Walls, in a moment of courageous silliness, suggested about a week ago that the Yankees are “very beatable.” That only proves Walls has no future in scouting once his ballplaying days are over. Yankees’ Aaron Judge ‘can’t make any promises’ about timeline Mets job is likely David Stearns' for the taking The Post's Jon Heyman reveals his deserving AL and NL All-Stars A Mets fire sale would be more dreadful than their season
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