I can't say with any certainty that help is on the way.

I can say with as close to certainty as possible that it won't be limited by payroll.

Good morning to you.

Good.

Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kvachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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Yankees 8, Pirates 5 last night in the Bronx.

Braxton Ashcraft with another start.

This one might have been his worst of the season.

Lasted three innings.

Eight runs, seven of those earned nine hits.

Two of those were home runs.

He blamed plain and simple the execution of his pitches. It just goes back to execution.

Being able to executed two strikes,

being able to execute with runners in score a position,

you know, that's how you're going to run it runs.

And I've just done a pretty bad job of that in the last really probably five starts.

So, you know, making that a point of emphasis going forward, really working hard on it and sign out for it

and ensuring that I'm just better mixed.

On the bright side, if you want to try to find one, the offense continued to do its thing

and actually battled back from an early 4-0 deficit to take a 5-4 lead on yet another

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