Never Mind the Mendoza Line!...

 

...Much of this team is struggling to stay on the "Interstate."

That's right.  A number of your New York Yankees are struggling to keep their averages NOT just above .200—now deemed, somehow, a sufficiently high batting average if accompanied by enough home runs and walks, which it never is—but just to stay on the Interstate.

That is, to stay hitting above .100.

One of our starters, Kyle Higashioka, has actually gone off the Interstate already, exiting along a service road to...who knows where? I'm thinking maybe Pa

Palookaville, which is where .097 hitters play. 

Higgy, in what may well be the worst start by any Yankees catcher, ever, also has zero home runs and zero RBI. A true triple threat!

(Here is the original Mario Mendoza, left, a lifetime .215 hitter in reality...which puts him 9 points above TOV Gallo.)

As of today, The Gleyber, Crusty Ol' Josh Donaldson, and Joey, Joey, of course, are below .200.  Torres and Gallo, at .167 and .135, respectively, WELL believe that Mendoza Line.

But is it possible that they will swerve off the Interstate as well?

Gallo was down to .111 in yesterday's Debacle in Detroit, before managing to muscle a single to the opposite field (For which, of course, he was promptly fined $50,000 by Cashman for achieving an "Untrue Outcome.).

It would take a lot, now, for Gallo to get back down under .100. Which is why it is so rarely achieved. But I have faith in Joey!  And in Gleyber!

But hey—I still have faith that even Stanton, currently coasting along at a lofty .216 has it within him to get below .100. 

Who knows how low it can go???

If I can just get off a this L.A. freeway

Without gettin' killed or caught...