BOSTON — Time for extreme measures.
Bullpenning. Openers. Whatever it takes to get the Yankees out of this full-blown starting pitching meltdown.
For that’s what we are witnessing here at Fenway Park, CC Sabathia’s abbreviated outing the latest domino to fall as the Yankees fell, 9-5, to the Red Sox on Saturday afternoon, their third straight loss to their rivals as the Sawx leapt over the losing Rays to move within eight games of the AL East-leading Yankees.
“We’ve been the reason why we’ve been losing games,” said Sabathia, who allowed five runs in 4¹/u2083 innings to take the loss.