October pressure squarely on these five Yankees

When we last left the Yankees in October, they figuratively lay on the ground, having been smacked down by their fiercest rivals in their own ballpark.

The Red Sox, defending champions for a few weeks more, didn’t even make it back to the playoff party. Yet their specter looms, for that 2018 American League Division Series Bronx beatdown left quite a mark.

You can’t discuss the Yankees who face the most heat this month without harking back, repeatedly, to that ALDS, the source of much current consternation.

Here are your five Yankees on the griddle:

1. Giancarlo Stanton

What a bizarre second year in pinstripes for Stanton, who followed up his 158-game maiden voyage with a slew of injuries that…