The Yankees are seven games back in the loss colum in the division, but with their new additions, there's a path to them winning the AL East. It won't be easy, and they will have to win about 43 of their remaining 61 games, but it can be done.

After the recap, Frank Marco of Bronx Pinstripes joined me to talk about the trades for Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo, what it means for the rest of the season and how the Yankees will finish over the remaining two months.

The Yankees beat the Rays (something they have a hard time doing) at Tropicana Field on (something they rarely ever do). The Yankees followed their big win by salary dumping Justin Wilson on the Reds, but they needed to include Luis Cessa in the deal in order to do so.

The Yankees are off on Monday before playing the Rays in a critical three-game series. Aaron Judge and Gio Urshela are about to return. Luis Severino is getting closer and Corey Kluber is throwing. The trade deadline is Friday and the Yankees' roster could be upgraded. With 64 games left, the Yankees have a chance to reset for the final two months of the season with a new manager leading the way. (I'm aware they won't make a change.)

The Yankees were one out away from winning their fifth straight game overall and their third straight game over the Red Sox and cutting their loss-column deficit in the division to five games. Then everything fell apart, resulting in the Yankees' worst loss of the season.

The Yankees nearly had their most recent worst loss of the season thanks to their own manager's bullpen management, but not even Aaron Boone's ineptitude can get in the way of the run the Makeshift Yankees are on.

The Yankees have won three straight games, and they have done so with a new-look lineup, forced on them by injury and protocol issues. Their new style of play has worked, and they have cut into their division and wild card deficits.

This is it for the Yankees: their last chance. The Yankees have pissed away every opportunity this season to meet expectations and now they are down to their last one with eight of their next 10 games against the Red Sox. Play badly in these 10 games, and their season will be over with still two months to play.

Michael Hurley of CBS Boston joined me to talk about managerial changes since Red Sox fans have seen a lot of them over the last 10 years. The Red Sox have made five managerial changes and have had four managers since the start of the 2011 season. Meanwhile, Yankees fans have only had three managers since the start of the 1996 season. That could and should be four managers since the start of the 1996 season if things don’t change over the next 73 games.

Aaron Boone said, "The season is on the line," and that was before the Yankees lost two of three to the Angels. One more bad weekend or week between now and the All-Star break, and the season will no longer be on the line ... it will be over.

The Yankees played the Red Sox, so that means the Yankees lost. After scoring just three runs on Friday, the Yankees scored only two on Saturday, losing 4-2. The Yankees had a chance to go to Boston and have a big weekend to erase their deficit in the loss column, and instead, they have only let it grow.

The Yankees' inconsistent season continued in Boston on Friday with a 5-3 loss to the Red Sox. An all-right-handed lineup only scored three runs off Martin Perez, who is barely in the majors, Scumbag Domingo German and Luke Voit made errors, Gleyber Torres had another 0-for-4 and Phil Nevin got Gio Urshela thrown out at the plate with no outs. If you wanted to sum up the 2021 Yankees in a single game, Friday's series-opening loss would be the perfect example.