The spiraling New York Yankees had been shut out by the juggernaut Braves 5-0 on Tuesday evening, and the loss dropped them to 60-60 on the season. That is the most recent in a season that the Yankees have been .500 or worse since September of 1995.
Tuesday’s recreation occasioned the most recent spherical of struggles for Yankees right-hander Luis Severino. Severino allowed 5 runs (three earned) in 4 innings with 5 strikeouts, two walks, and two dwelling runs allowed. His ERA for the season now stands at 7.98 on this, his stroll 12 months. As soon as once more, the primary inning was Severino’s undoing. He allowed three runs within the first body on Tuesday, and his first-inning ERA for the 12 months is now 14.79. This marks the fourth straight outing by which Severino’s runs allowed tally has exceed his innings pitched whole.
Throughout the best way, Bryce Elder and a pair of Atlanta relievers suffocated a Yankee lineup that has little going for it exterior of reigning AL MVP Aaron Choose. The Yankees managed just one hit on the evening – a second-inning single by DJ LeMahieu. Choose labored a pair of walks.
On the evening, the Yankees had extra fielding errors (two) than hits, and as Russ Gardiner notes, they turned the primary staff in MLB historical past to hit into 4 or extra double performs in a recreation whereas additionally recording one or fewer hits. That little bit of historical past was aided by the Braves pitchers strolling 5 batters. By the primary two video games of this interleague sequence, the Braves have outscored the Yankees 16-3.
The Yankees this season peaked at 11 video games over .500 on June 4, however then the slide started. They went 11-12 in June after which 10-15 in July. Up to now in August, Bret Boone’s squad is simply 5-9. They’re in peril of registering their first dropping season since 1992. Our Mike Axisa lately recounted the sequence of choices and misfortunes that led the Yankees to this present low level.
If there’s any hope shifting ahead, there’s some to be discovered again in, sure, 1995. After going 60-60 after which slipping to 60-61 a day later, that ’95 staff beneath Buck Showalter completed the common season on a 19-4 heater and made the postseason as a wild-card staff. As for the present Yankees, they’re in final place within the brutal AL East. They’ve higher odds within the wild-card chase, the place they’re 6 ½ video games out of the ultimate wild-card place and behind three groups in that exact chase. Seemingly, it’s going to take a 1995-style sturdy end for them to make the postseason for a seventh straight 12 months.
