{"id":192274,"date":"2025-10-06T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:39:07","slug":"yankees-set-out-to-step-on-necks-theyre-the-ones-getting-stomped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192274\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees set out to &#8216;step on necks&#8217; \u2014 they&#8217;re the ones getting stomped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 It\u2019s uncertain when the \u201cstep on necks\u201d portion of the postseason is supposed to begin for the Yankees, but it sure as heck better be soon.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball\u2019s hottest team entering the playoffs has turned cold up north. They are not hitting enough and barely pitching at all, and they certainly aren\u2019t stepping on any necks, as Jazz Chisholm Jr. memorably promised would be the Yankees\u2019 October destiny.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Yankees, MLB\u2019s marquee franchise and its regular-season leaders in runs and home runs, are in peril of being ushered out of the playoffs Tuesday following two straight brutal overall performances vs. the Blue Jays \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/05\/sports\/yankees-pushed-to-brink-again-after-blue-jays-beatdown-in-alds-game-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s 13-7 loss in Game 2 the latest.<\/a> The Bombers return to The Bronx to play Game 3 with no room for error at a time they are back playing bad baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Things are looking bleak, to put it mildly, and the Yankees have only themselves to blame. They are being thoroughly outplayed by the team they tied for the top spot in the American League East. They now need three straight wins over a team they\u2019ve beaten in only five of 15 matchups in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 It\u2019s uncertain when the \u201cstep on necks\u201d portion of the postseason is supposed to begin for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,11294,462,56605,3980,82,2091,2089,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-192274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jazz-chisholm","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}