Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Yankees can't hit.

Funny thing is, their July offense has improved when compared to June and the team is over .500 in July.

Larry Brooks surveys the damage:

"It is their longest home run drought in 29 years, since the 1984 team went 10 straight without one. The team that clubbed opponents into submission through the first four years of residence at their new address — a franchise record 245 home runs last season after smacking 222, 201 and 244 the three years before that — has hit 88 through 104 games, 14th in the AL.

They are the only team in the majors without a home run since the All-Star Game.
The power, the glory, the porch, the history. The bandbox of the new place that suddenly has been transformed into Yellowstone, the fences as far from home plate for the home team batters as if looking through the wrong end of a telescope.

Where have all the homers gone? Gone with Curtis Granderson to Tampa and the club’s minor league rehab center. Gone with Mark Teixeira to the disabled list. Gone with a new organizational checkbook mentality. Gone with Nick Swisher to Cleveland, with Raul Ibanez to Seattle, with Russell Martin to Pittsburgh.

Gone with A-Rod, who most surely is going, going away.

Robinson Cano, who went a feeble 0-for-3 against Archer without getting the ball out of the infield, has gone 13 straight games and 48 at-bats since he last hit one out on July 10, his only home run in the last 21 games.

Alfonso Soriano, who was acquired from the Cubs to provide right-handed power — no homers from the right side of the plate for the Yankees in 28 straight games since June 25 — never before had hit cleanup as a Yankee before Friday night."

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