Subway Series reveals Yankees’ biggest vulnerability

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The matchup was a pretty skeevy one to begin with, the Yankees out of the All-Star break opting to go with Domingo German against Noah Syndergaard in Friday’s opener of the three-game Subway Series against the Mets. And that skeevy turned ugly when German was driven from the box in the fourth inning trailing by three runs en route to a 7-5 defeat in The Bronx. It was a development that doesn’t exactly set up the rest of the series for the Yankees, who will send Sonny Gray to the mound Saturday against Steven Matz before Masahiro Tanaka faces Jacob deGrom on Sunday. It is not all that often a team on pace to win more than 100 games seems to be on the wrong side of all three matchups against a

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