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Brett Gardner squinted into a glowing computer screen on Sunday morning and characterized the inconsistency of the season as “a couple of steps forward, a couple of steps back.” That description outlines the uphill predicament that the Yankees face: after 65 games of wheel-spinning, they have hardly moved.
Domingo Germán was hammered for seven runs over 4 1/3 innings and the bats were held silent in a 7-0 loss to the Phillies on Sunday afternoon, completing a sweep of a two-game weekend Interleague series.