To a man, almost any Yankee you talk to will say he doesn't look at the standings.
Too many games left in the season; too many other teams involved.
Maybe that's true, but after Wednesday's 5-1 victory over the Red Sox, the Yankees are 71-66, and it seems fair to say they will need to get to 89 wins to get the second AL wild card. Which means they still have a long way to go if they want to stay relevant for the rest of September.
But for one night, Brian McCann and Hiroki Kuroda helped the Yankees avoid a crippling four-game losing streak and kept them from falling to .500 at home.
McCann had four hits, including a homer, and drove in three runs and Kuroda held Boston to one run in seven innings.
"They understand what we have to do," manager Joe Girardi said of his team before the game. "I don't think it's a shock what you have to do. But that's the beauty of this game. You can go on runs in certain months, and if it's the right month, it can become the run that gets you into the postseason. And that's what we need to do. We need to go on a really good run here and it needs to start tonight."
We'll see.
McCann's two-run homer in the second was his 17th home run of the season, and 15 have come in The Bronx. The blast deep into the right-field seats provided the Yankees with a much-needed lead after the Yankees had yet another Keystone Kops routine on the basepaths in the first.
After Derek Jeter and Brett Gardner each had one-out singles, they attempted a double steal.
Gardner, though, stopped before he got to second and got caught in a rundown. Jeter then tentatively headed off third, where he was tagged out by third baseman Brock Holt before Holt fired to first baseman Allen Craig, who got Gardner as he tried to get back to second.
"How many times have you seen that happen this year, when we've run ourselves out of an inning or something like that?" hitting coach Kevin Long said beforehand, referring to the base-running miscue by Martin Prado that stifled a rally on Tuesday. "It's happened eight, 10 times. That's a lot, especially in a game like that, when that's probably what, three, four, five runs maybe if everything falls into place? We run ourselves out of an inning."
Kuroda made sure the runs he got held up.
He delivered his fourth consecutive solid start, featuring a splitter that the Red Sox couldn't touch. He fanned five of the first seven batters he faced and allowed just two singles through the first five innings.
He first ran into trouble in the sixth after drilling Jemille Weeks with one out.
Holt followed with a line drive over Gardner in left that Gardner initially turned the wrong way on and it went for a run-scoring double.
But Kuroda recovered and got Mookie Betts to fly to right before David Ortiz flied out to deep left.
"We lost a ton of our rotation," Girardi said. "And I think people thought that we would just disappear when that happened, when you lose as much as we lost, but guys stepped up and found a way."
The lineup still hasn't shown much consistency and let another opportunity slip by when the struggling Stephen Drew, filling in for the injured Prado at second, struck out with the bases loaded to end the sixth.
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