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Yankees Losing Ways Continue in Philly

 PHILLIES 8 - YANKEES 7 - 10 innings

Nothing is going right for the Yankees right now. Comeback from a 7-3 deficit to tie the game in the ninth inning. DJ LeMahieu has a huge day for the first time in a long time, with a 3-run shot in the ninth that tied the game at seven, and even with that it was not enough for the Bronx Bombers who dropped their seventh game in their last 11, losing 8-7 to the Philadelphia Phillies. 

The Yankees are only two games over .500 at 33-31, and find themselves mired in fourth place behind the Rays, Red Sox and Blue Jays. This is life for the Yankees of late in 2021. 

Jameson Taillon was once again horrible.  He didn't even finish the first inning, allowing four runs to score on five hits in just a third of an inning. Taillon who has struggled with consistency all season, saw his already inflated ERA balloon to 5.74. It makes you wonder how much longer the Yankees can keep trotting this guy out there. 

Then again with Corey Kluber out til August, and Luis Severino likely to hit the IL again after injuring himself in a rehab start in Brooklyn, the Yankees have no answers right away to solve their starting rotation woes. 

Things didn't get any better with the bullpen, as the Phillies plated three more runs in the middle innings thanks to RBIs by Jean Segura, Alec Bohm and ex-Yankee Ronald Torreyes to give Philly a 7-2 advantage. 

The only way the Yankees could get back into this game was to slug their way with homers by Roughned Odor, and, of course, the three-run shot by LeMaheiu. Lest us not forget the RBI single by Gary Sanchez, who also homered in defeat. 

Yet, it was not enough. With Torreyes at third, Segura reached on an infield single in the 10th off Aroldis Chapman, who has had a horrendous week to push the Phillies past New York 8-7. 

Things just keep going from bad to worse for the Bombers who find themselves 7.5 games out of first place.

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