Boxscore Breakdown #57: Sound the alarm? – Yankees 6, Angels 2

Is it time to sound the panic alarms? The Angels just got swept in embarrassing fashion and are in the midst of a five-game losing streak. The offense still isn’t producing. The rotation is starting to fall apart. Everything that had kept them afloat early in the season is starting to disintegrate. Or maybe it just seems that way because everything tends to look like that during a losing streak. Sometimes though it seems that way because that is what the actual reality is.

Yankees 6, Angels 2

Run Expectancy Rundown
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[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1fpP2hoq7ffLIHr-dUDQhjMJCLbKkD4H0Fm0qdvAP4a0/pubchart” query=”oid=1154832181&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”341″ /] Brett Gardner had the deathblow, but Wilson also let chumps like Young, Gregorios and Pirela get to him. This isn’t a good Yankees lineup, but somehow they banged the Angels around in every single game.

Starting Pitcher Scores
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1fpP2hoq7ffLIHr-dUDQhjMJCLbKkD4H0Fm0qdvAP4a0/pubchart” query=”oid=161400381&format=interactive” width=”584″ height=”293″ /] Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but C.J. Wilson was looking pretty sharp except for that, wait for it…. ONE BIG INNING! Meanwhile CC Sabathia had a solid outing, but I’m not exactly sure there was a high degree of difficulty.

Bullpen Battle
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Game Flow
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Halo A-Hole

It feels weird to give this to Wilson in a game where he didn’t issue a single walk, yet here we are.