CC Sabathia: ‘What the f—‘ are Yankees doing wrong following AL Wild Card Game loss to Red Sox?

The New York Yankees have been eradicated from the playoffs by the Boston Red Sox for the second time prior to now 4 seasons on Tuesday. A day later, former Yankees starter CC Sabathia — who gained a title with the Yankees in 2009 — expressed his frustrations relating to his former crew being eradicated by their greatest rival.

“Our core misplaced to a crew in ’18 that is not even the identical Pink Sox … Mookie (Betts), Jackie Bradley, (Andrew) Benintendi … they traded all them,” Sabathia said on his R2C2 podcast. “We nonetheless have the identical core. We come again to Boston 4 years later and misplaced to a very totally different core … What the f— are we doing flawed?”

The Yankees fell 6-2 by the hands of the Pink Sox in an AL Wild Card Sport that Boston managed from starting to finish. Yankees starter Gerrit Cole surrendered three runs in simply two innings of labor.

From an offensive standpoint, the Yankees registered simply two runs on six hits all through the competition. Anthony Rizzo, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton offered 5 of these hits.

In 2018, Sabathia was on the mound within the decisive Sport 4 of the American League Division Collection when the Yankees have been as soon as once more eradicated by the Pink Sox. The left-hander gave up three runs on 5 hits in three innings of labor earlier than exiting the competition in a 4-3 Yankees loss.

Lately, as Sabathia famous, the Pink Sox did utterly break up that terrific core that featured the likes of Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi and Jackie Bradley Jr. This present group is paced by hitters like Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts and Alex Verdugo. Bogaerts and Verdugo knocked in 5 of the six runs in Tuesday’s win.

It may be an important offseason for the Bronx Bombers to say the least.