The Yankees started off their road trip with a series loss to the lowly White Sox, plummeting their FanGraphs playoff odds into the single digits for the first time this season. Even with their chances at October looking increasingly dire, who wouldn’t want to travel to sunny Miami for a reset against a Marlins team that had gone 7-17 in the second half?
That record moved to 7-18 after the Yankees notched a 9-4 victory using an Ian Hamilton-Randy Vázquez opener-bulk combo, with the bats pulling off an upset against the typically-sharp Jesús Luzardo.