Yankees change in Dud against humble twins while already East hopes further away

Minneapolis-de Yankees ended on Sunday evening a 12-game glove against Playoff opportunities and then flew here to face what their eternal punching bag has been, even if they have not been one of the worst teams in the competition.

Classic fall.

Whether or not the Yankees felt an emotional and/or physical disappointment, they played because they only gathered two hits and their bullpen blew another game open in a 7-0 loss for the twins on Monday evening at Target Field.

The Dud came closer to the Yankees (83-67) bending the Divisierace, now behind the Blue Jays (who own the head-to-head tie-graker) with five games with 12 to play.

Although they are still mathematically alive, the Wildcard looks more realistic, because they now lead the Red Sox through one game for the first place.

In Monday, the Yankees 109-43 against the twins (66-84) since 2002, the best record of the Majors by a team versus an opponent in his own competition in that period. If you add the late season, the Yankees were 125-45 against the twins at the time.

That made this part of the schedule out like a soft landing place after having gone 7-5 against the Astros, Blue Jays, Tigers and Red Sox.

But twins right-handed Simeon Woods Richardson, a former prospect of Mets, turned out to be too much for them to handle when he achieved a career-high 11 strikeouts about six innings. It came on the heels of Red Sox Lefty Garrett Crochet and hit 12 Yankees on Sunday.

Carlos Rodón, the most well-struggled Yankee after he flown in front of the team on Sunday, while the rest of his teammates reached their hotels in the middle of the night, was solid about six two-runs of two-run ball, but did not get much help from his batting line-up or field players.

Then Luke Weaver came in for the seventh and essentially had a chance that the Yankees would return.

He was tagged for five points on three hits and two free running while recording only one, the fourth time in his last six performances, he gave up at least one point. The punishing blow in this was Austin Martin’s Honken-Clearing Double-Nadat Weaver 0-2 ahead and then fell on 3-2, the twin 6-0 lead.

José Caballero, who started his sixth consecutive game at ShortStop, had a tough night, made a few outdoor games in the field and was also selected after a doubling with an out in the fifth inning.

In the meantime, Giancarlo Stanton struck in all four starts and refers 6-from-51 (.118) with three home runs and 27 strikeouts about his last 15 games.

Rodón drove through the first two innings before his defense dropped him in the third. He gave up a lead -off Double to Jhonny Pereda before no. 9 Slagman Edouard Julien tore a ground ball in the middle. Caballero was so in the shade and got his glove on the ball behind the bag, but not tidy enough when it passed him. Caballero tried to recover and fire to the first, but it was not on time to save Julien, putting runners on the corners.

After Rodón Byron Buxton had eliminated the first zero, Martin cut a potential double game ball to Shortstop. Caballero played it neatly, but then took a few steps to second base before he went to Jazz Chisholm Jr. , the hesitation, together with a bouncing throw to First of Chisholm, Martin was able to reach safely and ride in the first Twins -Run.

Rodón’s first throw of the fifth inning was a 92 km / h Fastball in the middle of Brooks Lee, who drilled it just over the left field wall for a home run that made it a 2-0 match.

At one point, Woods Richardson eliminated five straight Yankees – who were dissatisfied for a large part of the night about the battle zone – before Caballero cried a double to the left with one in the fifth. But he was quickly eliminated, took an excess of the second base and was picked for the second with Austin Wells on the record.