New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone. Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports

Yankees manager Aaron Boone: 'We should be ticked off' about rough patch

By Adam Stites | Last updated 8/20/22

The New York Yankees have lost 24 of their last 36 and 13 of their last 16. On Friday night, the team lost 4-0 to the Toronto Blue Jays, its fifth shutout loss of August.

"We should be ticked off right now and we need to start playing better. Plain and simple," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said, via ESPN.

"You pour a lot into trying to shake hands at the end of the day, and we've been able to do that on balance on a really high clip this year. We've hit a rough patch and we've got to dig ourselves out. We can sit here, and I can keep answering questions and talk about it ... but we've got to go do it. And the good news is we've got all the pieces in that room to do that. I know that's coming. I know it's going to happen, but it really sucks going through it."

Aaron Boone: We got to find a way... We got to do better. We all know it. pic.twitter.com/q1TAC9MPZe
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) August 20, 2022

The Yankees offense, which has arguably been MLB's most formidable of 2022, has managed to score more than three runs just one time in the last 10 games.

While New York still has an eight-game lead in the AL East, it's now 3.5 games behind the Houston Astros for the best record in the AL. The Yankees have two more games against the second-place Blue Jays before a pair of games against the New York Mets.

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