Excellent Yankee blogger Pete Abraham sums things up in Yankeeland pretty well:

What are the odds of two pitchers getting hit by line drives and breaking bones? Or a pitcher having to leave a no-hitter in the seventh inning because of a blown hamstring? Or Johnny Damon letting a ball bounce out of his glove and over the fence?

(The answers, btw, in order, are: Long, long, and, eh, pretty good.)

But the Yankees are 1-7 against the Mets and Red Sox and 4-13 in games decided by one or two runs. Even if George Steinbrenner isn’t the old Boss, those around him don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Something has to change or changes will be made.

One supposes the Yankees can take comfort from the fact that the one-run game stat, anyway, is bound to even out. The only question is whether it happens under Torre or Mattingly.