DENVER — The Yankees have insisted that they’re a championship-caliber team all season. But actions speak far louder than words, and the former has made the latter hard to believe when it comes to this team.
On Sunday, the Yankees accentuated that point when they lost an 8-7 game — and a series — to the 36-win Rockies, the worst team in the National League. Afterward, Aaron Boone dismissed a question about falling to such a bad team as he was also reminded of his organization’s championship quality claims.
“It’s baseball. Major League Baseball. Save it with that question,” Boone said. “We got two and a half months to put ourselves in a position to be championship-caliber. We got to go. It’s on us. We got to go prove that. As far as who we’re playing – Major League Baseball. You’re going to beat some good teams. You’re gonna lose some series to teams that are struggling. It’s a grind every time you go out there and put a Major League Baseball uniform on. I don’t buy into that garbage at all. They outlasted us today. We’re obviously pissed off in the moment that we lost a series, but it’s a series we lost, and we got to move on from it and go try and play well in California.”
