Yankees crumbling in World Series is raising uncomfortable questions

There’s still a crippled to go, and that apt isn’t bully news for these Yankees. Through 3 games — each defeats — nan Yankees are showing nary denotation they beryllium connected nan aforesaid section pinch nan Dodgers, overmuch little successful a World Series pinch anyone. 

The questions that must beryllium asked now: Did they triumph a convention that was unusually weak? And did we each (myself included) overrate them? 

The Dodgers are sidesplitting them, and support successful mind LA is doing it pinch only 3 starting pitchers — 1 pinch an alleged lower-back interest that frightened disconnected these very Yankees, 1 who returned from enarthrosis woes and a 3rd (Walker Buehler) who’d won only 1 crippled since returning midseason from his 2nd Tommy John room — that is earlier shutting nan Yankees down in nan Dodgers’ 4-0 Game 3 win. 

The existent bully news is that, assuming nan Yankees don’t go nan first squad to triumph nan World Series aft losing nan first 3 games, location is thing to regret successful position of 1 bad determination aliases call. All indications are nan Yankees are not nan caliber of a World Series winner. 

The Yankees should triumph Tuesday successful Game 4 pinch nan depleted Dodgers employing a dreaded bullpen crippled against uber-talented Luis Gil. But who knows anymore? 

These Yankees were expected to person an immense rotation advantage — of course, LA has 5 starters who scope from bully to all-time awesome retired pinch various injuries — yet LA’s starter won nan past 2 matchups successful overwhelming fashion. Neither Game 3 starter Clarke Schmidt nor Carlos Rodon made it into nan fourth. 

Luis Severino months agone jokingly trash-talked nan Yankees by text, telling them they had “two hitters,” and he mightiness beryllium right. He conscionable had nan incorrect two. It’s Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton now. Aaron Judge continued his unreal October funk. 

This evidently isn’t nan existent Judge, who still stands arsenic an all-time great. 

But we astir apt request to reevaluate this team. It won 94 games, but it feels for illustration nan Yankees did it successful a overmuch inferior league. Does anyone uncertainty nan Dodgers played 2 overmuch amended teams — nan Padres and Mets — to get here? 

Follow The Post’s sum of nan Yankees successful nan postseason:

• Vaccaro: Yankees whitethorn request to spell belief to prevention Aaron Judge this World Series
• Sherman: Yankees stay defiant, moreover arsenic nan Dodgers expose each their flaws
• Heyman: Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto flipped Yankees’ top World Series edge
• Juan Soto gives Yankees rallying outcry aft latest violative one-man show

Let’s not forget, those Mets, allegedly a squad successful transition, hit nan Yankees 4 for four. 

It’s clip to look nan reality that this is simply a flawed Yankees team, a squad whose lineup lacks existent depth, a squad that runs nan bases poorly, a squad that doesn’t do immoderate small things. In these 3 games, they didn’t do large things, either. 

The Yankees took 15 years to get backmost to nan World Series, and erstwhile they yet arrived, they look for illustration they don’t belong.