Yankees fall to Orioles again as offense has another quiet night
NY Post
BALTIMORE — After getting shut out on Monday night, the Yankees lamented putting balls in play and not seeing them fall.
They sang a familiar refrain Tuesday after watching the Orioles thrive on just that and take advantage of their athleticism.
The Orioles mostly sprayed the ball around to where the Yankees were not while keeping them in check for a second straight night, handing Aaron Boone’s club a 4-2 loss at Camden Yards.
After scoring 15 runs in back-to-back games, it was a second straight quiet night for the Yankees’ offense.
They avoided a shutout this time, but Orioles right-hander Dean Kremeer limited them to just a pair of solo home runs by Austin Wells and Juan Soto across seven innings.
“It’s baseball,” Soto said. “At the end of the day, we’re all grinding, we’re all trying to get some runs on the board. But things aren’t going our way. We’re hitting the ball hard. They’re making great plays, they’re diving all over the place. We gave good at-bats, we’re hitting the ball hard and they just haven’t landed for us.”
PHOENIX — You think of Tom Thibodeau, you think of defense.
It feels right that on the day we celebrate Aaron Judge joining an elite pantheon of athlete — the multi-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award — that we take a walk back to the beginning, when Judge was little more than a 6-foot-7, 280-pound curiosity who mostly specialized in striking out.
The NFL has warned its players to take precautions against a “transnational crime ring” that is suspected of orchestrating a number of break-ins of athletes’ homes including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
Joel Embiid isn’t pleased with details of the 76ers’ team meeting after Monday’s loss being leaked, telling reporters after Wednesday’s road loss to the Grizzlies, “whoever leaked that is a real piece of s–t.”
PHOENIX — Jalen Brunson didn’t want to comment on the NBA looking into his father’s promotion and contract as a potential salary-cap circumvention, but the point guard certainly had a message to anybody questioning Rick Brunson’s coaching credentials.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.