The Yankees Are In Full-Fledged Freefall
 

Amazing how the entire team can't hit. 3 straight shutouts. Wow. Feel free to pile on, all you Yankees haters. I know you're out there loving it.

Shutout three straight and in the three games before that they never scored a run earlier than in the 7th inning.

I don't know what's going on but it's painful.

The whole AL East is kind of a weird mess right now.

I'm loving it, but can't believe it's only been 26 years in 1999 since the Halos shut out the Yankees twice in consecutive games.

Going for a three-peat this evening.

In 5 games this season the Yankees lead by one, 9-8.

Yankees break out of their slump tonight! Go Yankees ⚾️

Too much dead wood in their lineup. Prob worse than the Mets, which is saying a lot.

I disagree. I think the Yankee lineup is decent from 1 through 9 - much more balanced than last year. Every position has an average or above-average hitter except 2b (LeMahieu/Peraza) and LeMahieu is looking a lot better than last season.

Even after this week of horror the Yankees have a 119 OPS+ for the season, and it's not just Judge. Taking Judge out of the equation, the Yankees still have a .238/.318/.411 slash-line (AL average of .240/.309/.394).

The Yankees have a solid line-up; the mystery is why they aren't acting like it.

2 solo home runs for their only 2 hits through 5 innings tonight. Tied 2-2.

When Boone gave Judge a day off last Thursday I thought it would do no good - why give a break to a man who'd hit four homers in three days? Why break the momentum of a man on a roll?

Since then Judge is 2 for 24 with 15 strikeouts and the Yankees have scored seven runs in seven games.

For context, in the previous seven games Judge was 12 for 27 with 9 runs scored and 9 driven in - more runs scored than the entire team in the last seven games.

It's possible this is not Boone's fault and it's the fault of the Yankees playing sixteen games in sixteen days - or it could be something else entirely - but I can't help wanting to blame Boone.

(?) Swinging those torpedo bats finally taken its toll (?)

Yes, I thought that was a weird day off as well. I was rooting for Judge to bat 400 this year, but that's looking like a tall challenge with his recent slump.

Still loving it. The Yankees and Angels are now 11-11 in runs scored for their season series of 6 games so far. That's par for the Angels, but the pitching has been well above their norm.

Incidentally after tomorrow's game with Tyler Anderson starting, they will have had only five starters who have each started 15 of their 75 games. Now that doesn't happen very often on a decent team, but I'm not claiming they are decent.:D