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The New York Yankees have been in the thick of things in the American League East division all season long. They have been battling with the Tampa Bay Rays while the Toronto Blue Jays are starting to make up some ground in the division.
The Bronx Bombers have played well, even without Aaron Judge. He was placed on the IL on June 5 after an MRI and CT scan revealed a stress fracture in his right rib.
However, the team did lose momentum last week. Stacked up against the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins, they just could not get anything going.
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The Yankees faced off against the Tigers at home to start the week off last week, where they were ultimately swept in the three-game series.
They then turned their attention to the Twins, where they could only muster one win, losing the weekend series 1-2, making for a 1-5 week.
With the losing week, Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller bumps this team from No. 5 to No. 9 in his latest power rankings.
"What ought to have been a 'get right' week at home against a pair of sub-.500 clubs from the AL Central instead ballooned into another chapter of New York's ongoing horror story. While the New York Mets have lost 12 of 15, the Yankees have dropped 13 of their last 17, held to five runs or fewer in all 17 of those games. Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger going cold in recent weeks has cast quite the spotlight on the many black holes in this lineup. And Aaron Judge's return from a fractured rib is nowhere near imminent."
Now, the Yankees turn their attention to closing the gap against the Tampa Bay Rays, whom they will face off against in a four-game series starting on Monday, going into a weekend series against the Washington Nationals before a much-needed All-Star break.
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