NEW YORK — New series, same result. The Yankees have been deplorable offensively over the past five games, scoring just five runs, and have not had a lead since Thursday. In fact, the Yankees have not scored a run in their last 20 innings. They started an inning with a runner on second and no outs four times today, and did not score.
Injury/Roster News:
Notes/Analysis:
FINAL: 1–0 LAA
WP: Zeferjahn (4–1) 4.85
LP: Loáisiga (0–1) 3.14
SV: Strickland (1)
Record: 42–29
Clarke Schmidt’s Final Line:
7.2IP | 4H | 0R | 0ER | 3K | 0BB | 97P | 3.16ERA
Clarke Schmidt was awsome tonight. He pitched really well, and gave his team every opportunity to win this game. The fastball toped out to about 95.7 MPH.
The Yankees offense is in their annual June slump, common in these Aaron Boone managed teams the past few years, where they are compared to the best Yankee teams and fall off, oddly enough, right around Father’s Day weekend.
There were two times late in the game that the game, in the ninth and tenth innings, with a runner on second and no outs, and both Jazz Chisholm Jr. and DJ LeMahieu failed at executing a sac bunt to move the runners over. Those waisted at-bats, both resulting in strikeouts, could have ultimately costed the Yankees the game.
Bellinger just missed a walk-off home run, but the balls are dead this season, as outlined by Pirates OF Andrew McCutchen:
On the Positive: Stanton was 2–4 and the three balls he put in play — a groundout, a single and a double — were all over 100 MPH.
Anthony Volpe swung at a first-pitch breaking ball and rolled over to third with the bases loaded to end the game.