The first two games of the ALDS could not have gone much worse for the New York Yankees. They were no-hit into the eighth inning by Tampa Bay Rays ace Drew Rasmussen in Game 1, then they played Little League-level defense in Game 2. It was an embarrassing display of baseball from a team that has had a knack for embarrassing displays the last few postseasons.
"Obviously, a really rough night to say the least for us," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Game 2. "We've got to get over it. We've responded all year to difficult times, and we've got to do that again.
We've got to get ourselves up off the mat." Only 10 times has a team rallied from a 2-0 deficit to win a best-of-five series. In the 2-2-1 Division Series format, there have been only three comebacks in 36 instances of a team falling behind 2-0 on the road. Aaron Judge's 2017 Yankees against Cleveland.
Judge, left off the ALDS roster due to injury, and the front office are the only shared link between the 2017 and 2026 Yankees, however. "It starts one play, one inning at a time," Boone said. "We can't play like that and expect a win.
We've got to come out Wednesday night, everything's on the line. It's obviously all hands on deck, and we've got to try and get one. We're capable of doing it.
This team has been really good at picking themselves up all year." What do the Yankees need to do to erase this 2-0 deficit and beat the Rays in the Division Series? Here are four things that must happen for the Yankees to avoid a second straight ALDS defeat, beginning with Wednesday night's Game 3 in the Bronx. Pitching hasn't really been an issue for the Yankees in the ALDS.
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