Yeah, more of the same, unfortunately.

Teixeira tied the game in the bottom of the 16th inning with a leadoff solo HR.

He carried the bat triumphantly for about 40 feet down the first base line and then flipped it to the ground as if the Yankees had just won the World Series.

I have no particular gripe abut that display of enthusiasm, but he looks like a fool.

Teixeira never gets hits with RISP. He is batting .188 overall with 2 HRs (both solo HRs, of course).

It's just four games, but I see no reason for optimism with this team:

"As they try to avoid a third straight season of missing the playoffs, Joe Girardi’s bunch played the Yankees’ longest home game ever Friday night into Saturday morning. That they lost the contest, 6-5 in 19 innings to the Red Sox in the inaugural rivalry game of the year, served as yet another negative indicator on a squad filled with them.

'It was one game that felt like it was about six,' Girardi said, displaying some gallows humor. The double-plus shift, which lasted six hours and 49 minutes (not counting a 16-minute delay when some lights went out), featured its share of encouraging signs for the Yankees, who wiped out one-run deficits in the ninth, 16th and 18th innings and enjoyed excellent bullpen work until losing pitcher Esmil Rogers clearly ran out of gas.

'We showed a lot of heart tonight,' Brett Gardner said. 'We didn’t win, but we played hard, and we played long.'

But the Yankees continued a young trend by going 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position, and that ultimately cost them, as did the recurring trend of base running ineptitude. Gardner got caught stealing second base in the eighth, and he got picked off first base in the 17th."

Bottom of the 12th, game-winning run on second base, 3-1 pitch to McCann. He fouls it off, count goes full, and he strikes out looking on the next (disputed) pitch.

My problem is the 3-1 pitch.

I just get the sense McCann is trying to hit another one of his patented 400-foot towering foul balls, instead of trying to with the game with an RBI single.

Which, frankly, may have gloved by a middle infielder and turned into an easy GIDP.

But these hitters are simply not smart enough to change their approach, and this season sure looks like more of the same. It's not working.