Nobody wants to declare Moral Victory on a Losing Monday here — let's save that for the Giants blogs. But, coming off a weekend series victory at Fenway Park, the Yankees entered Sunday Night Baseball with the less-than-enviable task of trying to beat a desperate Red Sox team sending Garrett Crochet to the mound. Goal No. 1 was sweet victory. Goal No. 2 was to make Boston fans at least a little itchy along the way.
Goal No. 3? Don't embarrass yourselves. And, while it looked like they might fail in every respect in Will Warren's first inning, the Yankees eventually turned things around, agitated a bit, and proved some pretty important things before the home plate umpire decided to give Garrett Whitlock Greg Maddux's strike zone.