Can we declare the Masahiro Tanaka crisis over now?
Can we declare the Yankees’ starting pitching crisis over now?
Let’s knock out the smaller perils first and that can lead organically to eradicating the bigger headache, don’t you think? On a lazy Labor Day afternoon at Yankee Stadium, in a game delayed nearly three hours due to rain, the Yankees suffered their first shutout loss of the season, 7-0 to the Rangers, ending a two-game winning streak and, by virtue of the Astros’ 3-2 victory over the Brewers, falling behind Houston in the race for the American League’s postseason home-field advantage.