New York Yankees Hit Rock Bottom After Getting Swept By Mets In A Blowout

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It wasn’t that long ago that the New York Yankees were sitting pretty as the best team in the American League. On June 12, they were 49-21, by far the best record in the AL, and they looked like prohibitive favorites to make the World Series.

That Yankees team is unrecognizable from the one that is playing now. After getting unceremoniously swept in the season against the surging, crosstown rival Mets with a 12-3 loss at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, things are at rock-bottom in the Bronx.

The loss on Wednesday was their fourth to the Mets, as the other New York team shelled Yankees ace Gerrit Cole for a second time this season. After giving up four homers to the Mets back in June,  Cole gave up another three homers on Wednesday night. He has not looked like himself for the most since coming off the IL to start the season. His ERA is up to 5.4, though the Mets are responsible for much of that.

And, outside of Aaron Judge and Juan Soto, who are otherworldly, the Yankees simply aren’t hitting. The Mets walked Judge four times Tuesday night and never suffered because of it. They mustered just six hits on Wednesday, one being a Soto homer, and never put up a crooked number all game.

To make matters worse, Francisco Lindor, who many Yankee fans have derided in the past for being overrated, continued hitting Yankee pitching, smacking two home runs. The second one put the game out of reach as “let’s go Mets” chants could be easily heard on the broadcast.

Since that high-water mark at 49-21, the Yankees are a whopping 11-23, second-worst in baseball in that stretch behind the historically bad Chicago White Sox.

The Yankees will get back Giancarlo Stanton from the IL soon, and trade reinforcements could be coming. But, right now, this looks like a broken team that manager Aaron Boone needs to turn around. They still are in the playoffs if the season ended today. But that lead over the fourth team in the wild card standings is only 4.5 now, and they play that team, the Red Sox, in a three-game set at Fenway Park.

Ultimately, if they don’t improve, there could be big organizational changes coming this offseason.