NEW YORK — The overall disappointment of 2016 will take a while to get past for the top Ray, no matter what little victories they score the rest of this season, such as Sunday’s 4-2 sweep-averting win over the contending Yankees.
“It’s hard,” principal owner Stuart Sternberg said an hour or so before first pitch. “I’ve already been thinking about next season, but it’s hard. It’s hard to see the promise given the kind of year we’ve had.
“Coming off of last year, I thought we overperformed relative to the number of games we had our guys on the field.