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New York Yankees Need to Show Resilience Following Loss

By Steve Contursi

Sep 15, 2016; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Red Sox first baseman Hanley Ramirez (13) reacts with teammates after hitting a three run home run to win the game against the New York Yankees in the ninth inning at Fenway Park. The Red Sox defeated the Yankees 7-5. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 15, 2016; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Red Sox first baseman Hanley Ramirez (13) reacts with teammates after hitting a three run home run to win the game against the New York Yankees in the ninth inning at Fenway Park. The Red Sox defeated the Yankees 7-5. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports /
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The New York Yankees suffered a tough loss in Boston last night. It’s important that they show their resilience by bouncing back when they take the field again tonight with rookie Luis Cessa on the mound against Clay Bucholtz.

Often, in baseball there are losses and then there are Losses. The New York Yankees suffered one of those capital L losses last night at Fenway in a game that ESPN referred to as “soul crushing” when Hanley Ramirez hit a pitch from Delin Betances over the center field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning for a three run walk off home run.

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Well, maybe, maybe not. We’ll see beginning tonight when the Yankees take the field again to face these same Red Sox. They’ll be charging this game to one of their Baby Bombers, 24-year-old Luis Cessa. The Red Sox will counter with Clay Bucholtz who has seemingly spent the better part of the last five years trying to resurrect a flailing career.

Already, this mornings New York newspapers are filled with stories wanting Joe Girardi’s head for lifting Masahiro Tanaka after only 93 pitches and sending Betances out there after he had pitched in the Yankees previous two games. But, this is what you can expect to hear when you lose the way they did in such a dramatic fashion instead of 13-2.

Maybe though, we should remember that Betances had registered two outs before Yankees nemesis David Ortiz slashed a single to open the rally. Also, that as a manager, you go with your best and hope for the best, especially in a game as important as this one. If Girardi had gone with (not to pick on him) say a Nick Goody, those same writers would be blasting Girardi for NOT having Betances in the game.

Nevertheless, this won’t the first time this season that the Yankees have been called on to bounce back from a one-game losing streak. If indeed their soul has been “crushed”, then maybe this isn’t the team we thought it was.

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To be sure though, they are definitely under the gun having fallen a full three games behind in the standings for the final Wild Card spot. The calls for Brian Cashman’s head for not bringing in a reliable and experienced starter to back up Tanaka may get louder. However, that shouldn’t matter either now.

The fact remains that yesterday was only one of 162 games in a long baseball season. It was only a few days ago that Mike Lupica in the same Daily News newspaper was referring to Girardi as “the real hero of the Yankees season”.

Except for the pickup of journeyman Billy Butler from the Oakland A’s, the roster is the same as it was then. It was the players who carried the team to the point where it is now and it’s those same players who can dig themselves out of the hole they are in now.

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It’s baseball! And as Derek Jeter always liked to say, the only game that matters is the one you are playing today. The Yankees have one of those games to play tonight and for this moment it’s the only remaining game on their schedule that matters.

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