The New York Yankees are in full-blown crisis mode — and the Detroit Tigers have been the ones twisting the knife.
Tarik Skubal pitched six innings of one-hit ball, and Riley Greene slugged two of Detroit’s four home runs off Cam Schlittler as the Tigers stomped the Bronx Bombers 9-3 Tuesday night — sending New York to its season-worst sixth straight loss.
Schlittler allowed four home runs — he’d only allowed six total in his first seventeen starts — and became the first Yankees pitcher to surrender four long balls to the Tigers since Chuck Cary way back in nineteen-eighty-nine at Tiger Stadium. The two-time reigning A-L Cy Young winner Skubal struck out nine and walked nobody.
New York has managed just sixteen hits over its last five games. The offense is ice cold, the defense has been leaky, and the Bronx faithful are getting restless fast.
This losing streak has come against a Tigers team sitting thirty-seven and forty-nine on the season — one of the worst records in the American League.
Today, the Yankees look to stop the bleeding in the series finale at Yankee Stadium — right-hander Will Warren, seven and three with a three-seventy-five E-R-A, takes on Detroit’s Troy Melton, four and one with a two-thirty-nine E-R-A. First pitch at one-thirty-five Eastern
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