Yankees’ Aaron Boone bluntly credited rivals after Crimson Sox accomplished collection sweep

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“They’ve kicked our ass,” Boone advised reporters after Sunday’s defeat.

Following his group being swept by the Crimson Sox over the weekend, Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone provided a candid overview.

The 6-5 defeat, New York’s eighth in a row (the group’s longest shedding streak since 1995), dropped Boone’s group to 60-64 on the season, final within the division with simply 38 video games remaining.

“They’ve kicked our ass,” Boone told reporters after the game. “We’ve performed a handful of aggressive video games which have come right down to the tip. We simply haven’t been adequate.”

Sunday’s consequence got here regardless of Boston blowing a late lead, a troublesome blow for the Yankees. The loss sends New York to 9 video games again of the ultimate American League wild-card spot.

Requested if he nonetheless thinks his group could make a playoff push, Boone stored his give attention to the current.

“You all the time have an opportunity, however we’re in a giant gap now,” he stated. “You’ll be able to’t even get big-picture about it. You’ve simply acquired sort out the following day. That’s what we’re in proper now.”

In a follow-up later within the press convention, Boone interrupted a query about what he sees as causes for optimism.

“You’re getting too massive,” he stated in response to rest-of-season projections. “We’ve acquired to be unbelievable the remainder of the best way. So it’s not even about that. It’s about coming to attempt to win a recreation Tuesday. After which hastily you begin stacking [wins] and a tremendous factor occurs. However we’re to date faraway from that proper now. We’ve acquired to get a win first.”