{"id":91954,"date":"2025-06-09T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91954\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:57:10","slug":"yankees-might-not-waltz-their-way-to-al-east-title-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91954\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees might not waltz their way to AL East title after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about three weeks ago, the Yankees had a seven-game lead in the AL East and were the only team in the division with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, with the second-place Rays still adjusting to life at Steinbrenner Field and at just .500, the Blue Jays a game under .500, the Red Sox losers of five straight, and the Orioles off to a ghastly start, it seemed like the Yankees might just waltz to another AL East title.<\/p>\n<p>Since winning nine of 10 games, the Yankees have had a little 4-5 hiccup after dropping two in a row to the Red Sox to bring that lead down to 4 \u00bd games.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Judge connects on a home run during the Yankees\u2019 loss to the Red Sox on June 8. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>And as the Yankees visit Kansas City on Tuesday looking to avoid losing three straight for the first time in over a month, maybe they will be tested, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just about three weeks ago, the Yankees had a seven-game lead in the AL East and were the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[8125,5,377,2554,4,62,185,428,68,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-91954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-al-east","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","19":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114655884077143688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}