The Yankees have an extra day to think on Sunday’s 11-7 loss to the Boston Red Sox.
After Saturday’s 10-7 loss, New York (39-25) dropped the season’s first series against the sub-.500 rival Red Sox (32-35) and stumbles into Tuesday’s three-game set at the Kansas City Royals.
“These are always kind of heavy series and fun to be a part of and go through, but they had their hitting shoes on the last couple nights and really even the first night with them coming back on us and pressuring us a little bit,” Aaron Boone said. “So they beat us here this weekend. So it’s part of it. We’ll kind of regroup into the off day here, obviously, and off to Kansas City and then back to Boston and get ourselves right back on track.”
The Yankees swept the Royals (34-32) April 14-16 and catch Kansas City after it lost two of the past three games to the 22-44 Chicago White Sox.
“Message is just keep going,” said Aaron Judge. “We lost a couple series already this year. This is just another series. We’ve got a big one coming up with Kansas City. We played in the postseason. Guys are having great at-bats, making great plays. Every time we play the Red Sox, it’s going to be a series like this, kind of back and forth — they have a big inning, we have one back. That’s baseball. So just go back to work and nothing different.”
New York gets another crack at the Red Sox with a three-game series in Boston starting Friday.
“There’s three really hard-fought games that maybe any of ’em could’ve gone either way but they made a couple more pitches or couple more swings than us,” said Paul Goldschmidt. “So hopefully the next series will go our way and we’ll win those pitches and win those at-bats.”
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