The bottom has fallen out in the Bronx, and this weekend made it worse.
Minnesota completed the series win yesterday at Yankee Stadium, 6-1, behind a dominant seven-inning, nine-strikeout gem from Joe Ryan. New York managed just five hits and went zero for three with runners in scoring position. Ryan Weathers lasted only four innings, surrendering four earned runs before the bullpen took over.
The Yankees won Friday’s opener five-to-two, then dropped the next two — including Saturday’s eleven-to-four blowout where Minnesota hit six home runs. In those two losses combined, New York hit just one-sixty-seven as a team with a combined OPS under four hundred.
They’ve now lost nine of their last eleven and fallen out of first place. New York opens a four-game series in Tampa Bay tonight — first pitch at 6:40pm Eastern.
Some individual players however, did receive some good news. The Yankees are sending four to Philadelphia for the All-Star Game on July fourteenth.
Aaron Judge was voted in as a starter for the eighth time, while Cody Bellinger earns his first selection since 2019. First-timers Cam Schlittler and Ben Rice round out the group — Schlittler leads the American League with a two-point-oh-eight ERA, and Rice leads the Yankees with twenty-four home runs before the break. Judge, however, is not expected to return from his rib fracture in time to actually play in the game.
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