What Aaron Judge won’t say even during ‘brutal’ Yankees stretch

In the Yankees’ ideal world, you could walk into their clubhouse on any given day during the 162-game schedule and not know whether they are flying high or in a brutal slump.

It is a mindset shared by captain Aaron Judge and manager Aaron Boone, who do not believe in riding the emotional roller coaster of a season. It is why you will rarely see them feeling too good about themselves after big wins or long winning streaks. And it is why they will stick to a similar script after gut punches like Wednesday’s 11-9 loss to the Blue Jays — falling for the 13th time in 19 games — no matter how much it grates the fanbase.

“Any loss is brutal,” said Judge, who is never all that interested in acknowledging some being tougher than others, even on a night when the Yankees fought all the way back from an 8-0 deficit, then tied it on Judge’s monster two-run shot, only to ultimately still lose.

“I trust this group so much,” Boone said. “Even what we’re going through right now — win, lose, [the] stretch we’re in, noisy, this group handles it so well. It’s really hard to tell day by day [what’s going on], and we want to have that quality about us. They have that. We’ll come ready to go tomorrow.”