ANAHEIM After back-to-back walks from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton to begin the top of the ninth inning on Wednesday Andrej Sekera Jersey night, with the Yankees down one run at Angel Stadium, New York was in prime position to finish their West Coast road tripand the month of Auguston a high note.Instead, the Yankees remained dormant on offense. Josh Donaldson and Gleyber Torres both struck out swinging before pinch-hitter Oswaldo Cabrera bounced harmle sly to second base, unceremoniously ending the threat and the game with one swing.Factoring in Wednesday's 3-2 lo s in Anaheim, the Yankees went 10-18 (.357) in the month of August. New York hasn't lost that many games, or produced that low of a winning percentage, in a single month since September of 1991.The optics of August are even worse than those numbers suggest. After making a slew of impactful acquisitions ahead of the trade deadline, New York rattled off 14 lo ses in their next 17 games. Then, after a quick winning streak and flashes of life, the Yankees began to spiral once Zack Kassian Jersey again. New York went 3-4 against the lowly Athletics and Angels on this West Coast trip, limping into September while beginning to hear footsteps in the standings for the first time in months.Like shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who sat patiently at his locker after the final out, awaiting questions about his costly error in a three-run sixth inning, the Yankees are holding themselves accountable."Brutal. I think all of us in here are not happy about last month," Kiner-Falefa said. "It's a long season and hopefully we can rebound from it. Maybe it might be a good wake-up call for us. Try to look at the positives out of it, but we're not happy about the last month. We're just happy to turn the page."Now would be a good time to wake up. New York holds a six-game lead in their division. That's still a sizable margin, but it used to be as high as 15.5 games. With six of their next 10 games coning against the Raysa foe that's looming in second place in the AL Eastthat lead could be gone by the end of next weekend."We'll have to shower this one off," starter Andrew Ference Jersey Gerrit Cole said after the lo s. "A new month coming up and plenty of games left."Cole went on to say that this team doesn't have time to dwell on their record over the last several weeks (and months). He said their focus is on the next game, keeping in mind that they're in a tremendous position to make it into the postseason and do some damage when they get there.Scroll to ContinueManager Aaron Boone added that the first step in righting the ship is getting healthy and bringing the best of certain key contributors that haven't held up their part of the bargain lately."We're a little banged up within the lineup and obviously mi sing some key pieces that we need to get back," Boone explained. "That said, we have all the pieces right now to be able to go out and win baseball games and that's what we've got to take care of. The unfortunate part of the last several weeks for us, has been we've been losing those close games and that's what we've got to find a way to punch through. I think a big part of that is just getting a few guys going from a performance standpoint, from a health standpoint."Injuries are obstacles, though, not excuses. Boone and the Yankees Grant Fuhr Jersey understand that."We've got to play better than we have lately, simple as that," the skipper said. "We've got to start racking up some wins. Whether the calendar has an eight or a nine or a 10 on it, you gotta get a little better"New York's record in August won't make a difference if they can finish strong and make noise in the playoffs. Until this team proves that it can put that type of production in the rearview mirror, questions about what this team is truly capable of will continue to flow."It all comes down to how we answer and if we can go to Tampa and answer them and keep our lead, it's all we can do," Kiner-Falefa said. "So at this point, we've just gotta play better, flip the Boyd Gordon Jersey page. Hopefully this next month, we can take momentum into the postseason and hold onto our lead."MORE:
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