I don't know how the Yankees are going to win a game this weekend. Gerrit Cole and Masahiro Tanaka can't start and their 1 through 4 hitters are out as Aaron Judge becomes Giancarlo Stanton with injuries. After the five games against the Mets, things only get worse with three more games against the Rays and another game against the Mets next weekend.

It's a summer Friday. No one should be this upset on a summer Friday, but here I am furious about the Yankees because of their last three games. The Yankees are falling apart.

The Yankees have one team they're competing against for the AL East title and they can't beat them. After losing to the Rays 4-2 on Wednesday night, the Yankees are now 1-5 against their only division competition this season.

The Rays are better than the Yankees. Maybe they won't be at the end of the season, but right now they are. Even if the Yankees hold a 1 1/2-game lead over them in the standings, the Rays are now 4-1 against the Yankees this season.

The Yankees don't lose at home and they certainly don't lose to the Red Sox. After sweeping the Red Sox in a three-game series a couple of weeks ago at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees swept them again, this time in a four-game series. The Yankees have now won 10 straight against the Red Sox for the first time since 1952-53.

With the four wins over the Red Sox, the Yankees have now won six straight and are 16-6 with a three-game lead in the loss column over the Rays. If the Yankees' winning streak continues through the three-game series with the Rays beginning on Tuesday, the division will be over with 35 games left to play.

Aaron Boone might have outright lied as Yankees manager to the fans and the media when he removed Aaron Judge from Tuesday's game. If he did, it's not a great look for a manager in New York. If he didn't, then Aaron Judge seemingly can't stay healthy once again. Either way, it's bad for the Yankees.

When the Yankees lead a game 3-0 after the first inning, 6-0 after the third innning and 8-0 after the fifth inning, there should be no reason to get upset, frustrated or annoyed with Aaron Boone. But the Yankees manager always finds a way.

On top of five losses in seven games, Aaron Boone has been as bad as ever with days off and bullpen decisions, the Yankees still can't situationally hit, James Paxton is being treated as a hero for blowing a three-run lead and Giancarlo Stanton is once again hurt as a Yankee. It was a bad week.

Giancarlo Stanton played in only 18 games last season and then missed a lot of the postseason with various injuries. After playing in 14 games this season (all as the designated hitter), Stanton now has a hamstring injury. When will it end with him?

The Yankees had two hits and seven baserunners on Friday night and lost 1-0, but they didn't lose because of their lack of baserunners. The Rays only had two hits and four baserunners and managed to get across the game's lone run in an inning without a hit. The difference in the game was the Yankees' situational hitting.

In a game in which Blake Snell was removed after three innings, the Yankees failed to score a leadoff double in both the seventh and eighth innings and failed to even get the runner over to third with one out. Masahiro Tanaka did his part (5 IP, 1 H) and the bullpen did theirs (3 IP, 1 H, 1 ER), but the offense let the team down.