Virtual Baseball: Breakdown in Birdland! Yanks Drop First to Baltimore in Almost Two Years, Fall Back into First Place Tie.

Virtual Deivi Garcia's brilliant debut as a Yankee hit a speed bump in Baltimore this Labor Day afternoon, as a couple of butchered balls at first base and a pair of timely hits by royal family member Sir Ryan Mountcastle enabled the O's to grab some final scrap of pride and beat New York, 5-3.

Deivi often looked sharp, striking out 10 in 5 innings of work, but he was betrayed by his defense and by a Yankees lineup that was looking for pitches in all the wrong places.

Voit partially redeemed himself with a long, solo home run—as did Miguel Andujar and Clint Frazier—but again and again, the Bombers' navigation system went haywire with men on base, as they stranded 14 runners.

The loss dropped New York back into a tie for first with the wretched Rays, but manager Ma Boone seemed unconcerned.

"Ah, you guys know me.  Why, you could set off a bomb in here and I wouldn't get excited.  I like to keep things calm and steady.  To understand how the long season demands a level temperament.  To never get too high or too low ZZZZZZZZZZZZ..."

As Boone's head fell on his desk and he drifted into a deep sleep, the New York press corps tucked his manager's jacket up over his shoulders and left a note saying to wake him in time for the Amtrak back home, before tiptoeing out the door and shushing the players in the clubhouse.