Jazz Chisholm Jr. on Yankees’ surge – ‘We’re the team to beat’

BOSTON – New York Yankees survived the Boston Red Sox for the second consecutive day on Saturday, beating their rivals 4-3 in front of a closed window in Fenway Park to extend their advance for the best place in the American league with 1½ matches.

Yankees’ 83-65 record ranks third in the American League, three games behind Toronto Blue Jays in Al East. With 14 games to play, New York has an outside shot to win the title Al East and the League seed for the second consecutive year.

But the second goal player of the Yankees, Jazz Chisholm Jr., does not believe that the classification represents with precision the hierarchy of the League. For him, the Yankees are the team to beat in the American League.

“I feel like any team who thinks that she is better than us, she must know that when we walk on the field, that we come with inlasia and that we come on the neck,” said Chisholm. “We are not here to play. We are going to do the work and do the work.”

After spending 2 for 4 with two stolen bases on Friday, Chisholm finished on Saturday 3-in-4 with a home run and three products produced to move to a circuit to become the third Yankee to display a 30/30 season and the first from Alfonso Soriano in 2003.

He said that a recent “speech” among the players who occurred far from the stadium helped to trigger the recent recovery of the Yankees after the team was wasted a comfortable lead in the Al East in mid-June.

“Honestly, everyone just started locking themselves,” said Chisholm.

The Yankees have been 13-5 since August 24, a section that started with a victory over the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. The success was supported by winning six of the seven games against the Nationals of Washington and the White Sox of Chicago – two of the worst Majors teams – but it also included the Yankees going 7-4 against the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Houston Astros and Detroit Tigers – four AL clubs positioned to reach the public session.

New York will complement the four team glove with the final of the series of Sunday evening in Fenway Park, will face the candidate of the Al Young Garrett Crochet Prize. It will be the last regular Yankees season game for a team over 0,500; They finished the calendar with three games against the Minnesota Twins, three against the White Sox and seven against the Orioles of Baltimore.

“All these matches are super important,” said Yankees manager Aaron Boone. “So, to get another victory in this place against, obviously a very good opponent and a hook awaiting tomorrow, so it was a good to get. I hope we can go out and finish a great series.”

Until Saturday, the Yankees are 45-43 against teams on 0,500 this season. They are 26-29 against AL teams with winning records. They will have to be better in October to reach the World Series.

“We said it all year round, that we played at everyone’s level instead of our own level,” said Chisholm. “We have dropped the games. We have lost games ourselves.

“So, at the end of the day, we finally looked at each other in the mirror and realized that we are the team to beat, and that’s how we walked on the field for two weeks.”