BOSTON — The sample size grows.
And with it, the need for reinforcements, be they internal, external or both.
Any hopes that the Yankees’ starting-rotation funk would cease at one full turn — that their pitching, more generally, would stop bleeding like the stabbed undercover cop in “Witness” — evaporated quickly Thursday night at Fenway Park, as Masahiro Tanaka registered multiple career worsts and Austin Romine mopped up in a 19-3 drubbing the Yankees suffered at the hands of the rival Red Sox.
With less than a week to go before the July 31 trade deadline, the Yankees’ pitching is experiencing the worst-timed meltdown since Charlie Sheen’s a few years back.