The New York Yankees Are Now Flirting with Completely Missing the MLB Postseason
Column - September 7, 2021
There’s bedlam in the Bronx. Just not the good kind.
In a season marked by entertaining highs mixed with frustrating lows, the New York Yankees now find themselves experiencing another bump in the road in 2021. Except in this instance, it could not come at a more inconvenient time.
As the calendar was crossing into September and the final stretch of regular season baseball just last week, the anticipation was building in the Bronx and broader New York for a possible Yankees-Rays series at the end of the season to decide the AL East champ.
That moment, however, was when the tide once again shifted on the Yankees, back in the negative direction. Now, after an embarrassing series loss and atrocious Labor Day performance at home, there is cause for grave concern. Not for the team’s division title prospects, but for those of making the postseason at all.
In this TPS column, I discuss the severity of the New York Yankees losing skid in the final month of the regular season, just days after they rallied a 13-game win streak to build a 6.5 game lead on the first AL Wild Card spot. I also note what’s at stake if the team doesn’t revive the success that saw them become the hottest team in baseball in the month of August.