Rookie moments beginning to pile up for Yankees George Lombard Jr., Spencer Jones

Momentum and narratives swing wildly in October.Against the Red Sox, George Lombard Jr.

and Spencer Jones looked like the present and future of the Yankees. In two games against the Rays, they have looked like rookies.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.They have had plenty of company on a team that has neither hit nor won, but Lombard and Jones have been part of the problem for a Yankees club on the brink of elimination. For Lombard, the largest issue was two plays in the Game 2 loss — one deemed an error (even if the error could have been assigned to Luis García Jr.) and the other generously ruled a fielder’s choice that allowed a run to score. Jones had his own questionable play in right field Monday, but the bigger problem is the slugger going hitless in seven at-bats against Tampa Bay and now being 2-for-15 with seven strikeouts in the postseason. “It was just one of those games where things kind of compiled and stacked up on top of each other,” Lombard said after the team combined for four errors in the 5-2 loss. The worst moment for Lombard — who went 4-for-8 against Boston and has gone 0-for-7 against Tampa Bay, albeit with some hard-hit outs — came in Monday’s fifth inning.

With one out and Junior Caminero on third and the Yankees trailing 2-1, Chandler Simpson tapped one softly to shortstop.Lombard charged, attempted to field on the backhand and rush a throw to the plate, but even as his arm was beginning his throw, the ball deflected off his glove. Probably contributing to the play was that the 21-year-old had not played at Tropicana Field before this series. “I wouldn’t say tough.

It’s definitely different,” Lombard said of the turf.“But we went out there in practice and kind of tried to get accustomed to it.

But it’s different than other fields.But that’s the same thing with every other stadium — everyone...