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Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Mike Lupica will join us at 2.30.

We'll get his unique perspective on what happened yesterday.

All right, so the Yankees lost yesterday, and we have a lot of complaints about it,

and we're moving freed.

I get all that.

But the series is not over, and it's still winnable, although the odds are not in your favor.

This season, when the Yankees lose the first game of a three-game series,

this is in the 2025 regular season, so you're not facing the best of the best. I mean, there's some series that you might lose to the White Sox or the Rockies the first game. The Yankees were 7 and 15 in those series. So they won 7 of the series after losing the first game of a three-game set. So that's a win percentage of 318.

3-18.

They've got a really outstanding starting pitcher going in Carlos Rodan, and he has to be

really strong.

And the Red Sox at Brian Beaux, who historically has done well against the Yankees, but the last time out the Yankees did get to him,

and he has not pitched well at all to the last month or so of the season.

And that's the second best pitcher that the Red Sox have.

Yankees, their second best pitcher is Carlos Rodan, who won 18 games.

So there's pressure on the Yankees. their second best pitcher is Carlos Rodan, who won 18 games. So there's pressure on the Yankees.

They have to win tonight.

Otherwise, the season's over.

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