NEW YORK — The Yankees had lost back-to-back-to-back games just once in this fabulous first half. So the odds were in favor of baseball’s best breaking a two-game slide Tuesday night, especially with one of its All-Stars on the mound and one of baseball’s worst wearing road red.
The series opener against Cincinnati began about an hour late at Yankee Stadium because of the threat of rain. But that just delayed a surprising Yankees loss.
Gerrit Cole turned in seven innings of brilliant no-run, four-hit, 11-strikeout, one-walk work. But the Reds scored four in the ninth to take a one-run edge and held on for a 4-3 win.
