The Yankees misplaced a 7-3 contest to the Marlins on Sunday (box score), finishing Miami’s first ever sweep over New York. The sport was vital in different methods for each squads. To wit, the win allowed the Marlins to return to the .500 mark on the season for the primary time since April 15, and gave Miami the excellence of being the one Main League Baseball franchise with an all-time profitable document towards the Yankees. (That features postseason play, for these questioning.)
The Marlins are simply the fifth workforce within the wild card period to achieve .500 in a season after being 16 or video games beneath in some unspecified time in the future prior within the yr, based on Elias Sports. Oddly, it is the second time in Marlins franchise historical past they’ve achieved that feat, becoming a member of the 2006 squad.
Listed below are the three others:
On the Yankees’ facet of the ledger, Sunday served as Luis Gil’s season debut (he surrendered 5 runs on 5 hits and 4 walks over 3 ⅓ innings pitched). It additionally continued a current downturn that has loosened the Yankees’ grasp on a playoff spot — simply days after a busy commerce deadline season that noticed New York add third baseman Ryan McMahon, utility gamers Amed Rosario and José Caballero, and relievers Camilo Doval, David Bednar, and Jake Chook.
Certainly, the Yankees as of this writing at the moment are 4 ½ video games again of the Toronto Blue Jays within the American League East, sitting in third place behind the Boston Red Sox. They’re nonetheless in possession of the second wild card spot, with a sport benefit over the Seattle Mariners. Nonetheless, the Yankees are 0-3 to start August and are 25-30 courting again to the beginning of June.
What makes the Yankees’ current downturn significantly irritating is the very fact they proceed to own the perfect run differential within the AL. Typically talking, run differential is a greater indicator of workforce high quality than a membership’s won-lost document. The Yankees, although, have been accomplished in partially by one of many 10 worst profitable percentages in one-run video games.