Six months of miserable baseball in the Bronx came to a fitting end on Monday.
The Yankees’ 81st and final home game of the season was an afternoon makeup game against the Diamondbacks, and all the ingredients were there for it to be a dismal day at the ballpark.
For one thing, New York had been officially eliminated from postseason contention after losing the day before to Arizona. On top of that, Monday’s game was a makeup of a game initially scheduled for Saturday, and the rain that caused Saturday’s game to be postponed still lingered as temperatures struggled to crack 60 degrees. Who’s going to show up at 1 p.m. on Monday in conditions like that?
