From Bill Ladson:
Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt pitched his best game of the season on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, but he ended up with a no-decision as New York lost to the Angels, 1-0, in 11 innings.
The Yankees have lost four straight for the first time this season and haven’t led in their past 39 innings. They have been held scoreless in their past 20 innings.
Manager Aaron Boone doesn’t seem concerned about a team that is still first in the American League in runs scored with 370. He gave credit to Angels right-hander José Soriano for keeping the Yankees off-balance. Soriano pitched seven scoreless innings in a no-decision.
The Yankees had an opportunity to win it in the ninth inning. After Giancarlo Stanton – playing in his first game of the season – led off with a double against Kenley Jansen, New York couldn’t score the winning run. By the time the game ended, the Yankees had gone 1-for-18 with runners in scoring position.
I honestly wasn’t as concerned about this loss as the Boston losses. Brayan Bello DOMINATED the Yankees on Sunday. Jose Soriano pitched well, but he didn’t dominate them, and then the Yankees’ results against the bullpen were just bad luck after bad luck after bad luck. The wind was blowing in all game, and Cody Bellinger, for instance, sure as fuck looked like he hit a game-winning three-run home run in the 11th inning, but the wind pushed it back (Soriano is a pitcher who it is hard to hit home runs off of, so when you couple that with wind pushing the balls back on to the field, it was EXTREMELY difficult to hit home runs for the Yankees tonight).
The Angels scored the go-ahead run on an excuse me double off of Lo, who looked GREAT tonight. Also, on top of the bad luck, there was also plenty of just terrible choking, like DJ and Jazz striking out in spots where they needed to at least move the runner over.
And, most importantly, Clarke Schmidt was both excellent but also ECONOMICAL. It was an extremely impressive outing.
The featured image is the worst luck of the night (as I don’t know that I can say “the wind was bad” is as close to fluky bad luck as this one), where Volpe hit a dribbler that went RIGHT to Luis Renigflo AS Dominguez was passing him, so he was able to tag him as he went by him. It should have been runners on first and third with one out, and instead it was runner on first with two outs. Volpe then at least stole second, but Wells pathetically struck out (he was fucking DOMINATED by Kensley fucking Janson).
lol. lmao
This offense is hilariously inept.
It’s SO embarrassing right now.
Worst AB last night Wells, DJ, Volpe or Jazz?
I’d rank them like this (#1 being the worst):
1. Jazz in the ninth
2. LeMahieu in the tenth
3. Wells in the ninth
4. Dominguez in the 11th
5. Volpe in the 11th
6. Jazz in the 11th
I get that they’re probably in a bit of a regression due to the hot start a lot of guys had and that was all at once, so this is too. Goldschmidt, Rice, Grisham and Dominguez have all been pretty awful for the last month.
The sequencing is what kills me. They’re all still getting hits, but never in the same inning. They’re all choking like crazy.
The last 7 days they’re hitting 182, the last 15 days 235.
I think that’s skewed by the Boston series. THAT series was just pathetic. They were simply dominated. Last night, they had seven hits, but couldn’t get a single run.
Martian leads off, Stanton 4th, Rice and Trent sit