Sunday's Win Pretty Much Sums Up The Yankees' Season

For eight innings on Sunday, all was going right for the Yankees. CC was dominating, the offense was finally producing more runs than a taco bell, and overall, everything just seemed to be going their way.

But with just three outs left, all hell broke loose. A double by Mike Trout and a walk to Albert Pujols cut Sabathia's 9th inning short, keeping him from going to distance.

It's OK, because David Robertson will come in and shut things down, right? Wrong.

Robertson was greeted by Mark Trumbo, who rocketed a ball that ricocheted off of D-Rod, finding it's way into right field, bringing home Trout. He rebounded to strike out the streaking Howie Kendrick, but followed up with a walk to J.B. Shuck.

Joe Girardi was forced to call upon the 43-year old Mariano Rivera, who just minutes prior probably never guessed that he'd have to come in with his team entering the inning with a six run lead.

Rivera got Erick Aybar to ground out to 1st base for the second out of the inning. A run scored on the play, but with still a four run cushion, all seemed fine. But it wasn't.

Alberto Callaspo singled home a pair of runs on a soft liner into right field, making it a two-run game. Brad Hawpe singled, putting runners on the corners with still two down. Peter Bourjos singled home Callaspo to pull the Angels within a run.

With the pressure building on a man who's knows pressure as something he only felt as, maybe, a rookie in the league. Trout walked to load the bases for Pujols.

Two, without a doubt, Hall of Famers facing off with the game on the line. Though struggling this season, Pujols is still a feared hitter, but Mariano was able to get the best of him, striking him out to end the game. Writing off any chance of the biggest failure for the Yankees this season.

The 9th inning of Sunday's game seemingly mirrors how this season has gone for the Yankees, on so many levels. Everything was going great, before it all started to fall apart.

Six games above .500 after April, things were playing out well beyond the Yankees wildest expectations. Robinson Cano was pulling off an MVP performance, Vernon Wells and Travis Hafner were playing like it was 2007, and for the time, the Yankees were treading water better than expected.

But as May rolled around, the team started to tread on more water than they could handle. Wells' impressive batting average started to slip downward, along with his power.

Hafner slowed down towards the end of May, as well as Cano. They Yankees big bats that had carried them for the first month and a half began to fade away like the fantasy dream the Yankees were living.

The long awaited returns of Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira and Kevin Youkilis were short lived. Granderson played only eight games before taking another pitch off his hand, landing him back on the DL for another extended period of time.

Youkilis came back less productive than he was before his original DL stint. Now on the DL for the second time with back problems that will likely keep him on the DL for more than just 15 days, his season with the Bombers isn't spelling well.

Teixeira, who had already missed the first 52 games with a wrist tendon injury, was forced to fly back to New York on Saturday to undergo an MRI on his wrist. Luckily for the Yankees they came back showing only inflammation and a DL trip isn't, yet, in his future.

The Yankees as a team came into Sunday's game in their worst offensive slump of the season. Scoring just two runs in each of their last four game, the solid pitching hasn't been able to hold the team up much longer.

When the Yankees were given the opportunity of having the bases loaded with only one out, the thoughts of this being the time that they finally break out and score more than two runs in a game for the first time since Wednesday were running through my mind.

But when Wells grounded into an inning-ending double play, I was reminded of the fact that the Yankees aren't who they were in April, when a bases loaded chance meant that they would walk away with at least a pair of runs.

Now it's just another torturing attempt by the baseball gods to make fun of the dawning situation that Yankee fans have been dealing with for most of June.

Then with one swing of the bat, when Hafner launched a three-run homerun over the center field wall, it felt as if all of the Yankees recent struggle had flown out of the park with the ball that Hafner sent flying.

A five run inning seemed like a dream that the Yankees have been waiting for, for days. Adding a sixth run only helped the offensively challenged lineup hold up it's end of the deal that the pitching staff had been picking up after for weeks.

With CC cruising into the 9th inning with a 6-0 lead, everyone figured that nothing could go wrong. Then when the Angels began to put up runs, then more runs, and then eventually bring the game to within a run with one of the all-time greatest hitters at the plate.

The feelings of an up and down season began to rush up. A perfect start, with a couple bumps in the road, then when everything was going their way and nothing less, it all began to fall apart.

There's still a lot of baseball left to be played and the Yankees could fall in any direction from here on out. A brutal 4-6 road trip, capped off with a near six run collapse in the final game of the ten game trip.

The past few weeks haven't been great for the Yankees, and Sunday's win pretty much sums it up.

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