Chris Trentacosta
10/12/2022
For the 12th season in a row, the New York Yankees will not get the opportunity to play for a world series. Last Tuesday, the Yankees faced off with their biggest rival, the Boston Red Sox, in a single-elimination wild card game, at Fenway Park. The Red Sox would go on to win this game with a score of 6-2. This allowed them to move on to the American League Division Series, to play another American League East rival, the Tampa Bay Rays.
The big story in this game was Yankee ace, Gerrit Cole, not making it out of the third inning, giving up three earned runs, on four hits, with only three strikeouts. This is not the normal Gerrit Cole that the Yankees are paying 324 million dollars for. However, this has been the case for him all year at Fenway Park, as he gave up 14 runs through 18 innings there this season.
Although Cole did not play his best, Giancarlo Stanton tried his best to keep the Yankees’ postseason hopes alive, with going 3-4 with a single and a double off the Green Monster, as well as a solo home run, down the right field line. The other of the two runs scored by the Bombers, was another solo shot by Anthony Rizzo. Aside from the two, no Yankees were able to combat the dominant pitching by the Nathan Eovaldi and the Red Sox bullpen.
There are many questions about what the Yankees will do in the offseason, whether it be changing managers, resigning free agents, or parting ways with some players, in the search of new ones. Maybe a combination of a few, maybe none, however the Yankees must figure out a way to stop this World Series drought and get back to their old winning ways.
They will begin their 2022 campaign on March 31st with a series in Texas, against the Rangers. They will return to the Bronx in their third series of the season with a series against, none other than the Boston Red Sox. The “Bronx Zoo” will most definitely be loud as the Yankees will look for some revenge.
Chris Trentacosta 