{"id":23509,"date":"2025-06-29T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23509\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T03:40:10","slug":"yankees-offense-disappears-in-ugly-shutout-loss-to-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23509\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ offense disappears in ugly shutout loss to A’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget flirting with a no-hitter<\/a>. Clarke Schmidt would have had to pitch a perfect game to give the Yankees a chance against the A\u2019s on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, Schmidt \u2014 who hadn\u2019t allowed a run his previous three starts \u2014 gave up four and the Yankees lineup went missing again, as they were thumped 7-0 by the lowly A\u2019s in The Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After picking up a win on Friday with just four hits, the Yankees were completely shut down Saturday against ex-Yankee JP Sears and the A\u2019s bullpen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the defeat displayed several worrying trends for the Yankees, who remain in first place in the AL East, but often haven\u2019t looked like a first-place team. After being shut out just twice in their first 69 games, they\u2019ve been blanked twice in their past 13 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clarke Schmidt reacts after allowing a homer to Nick Kurtz in the Yankees\u2019 loss to the A\u2019s on June 28, 2025. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge continued his cold streak and the rest of the lineup hasn\u2019t been able to pick him up. He left a pair of runners on in the third, nearly sent one out in the sixth and ended the game by running into the final out at third base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn times like this, it comes down to getting a big hit with runners out there,\u2019\u2019 Aaron Boone said after the Yankees went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a lot of hits the last two days. We haven\u2019t been hitting the long ball, either.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees reacts after he flies out in the third inning. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton hasn\u2019t homered in the two weeks since he\u2019s been back from elbow tendinitis, while Paul Goldschmidt, Anthony Volpe, DJ LeMahieu and \u2014 especially \u2014 Austin Wells are in serious slumps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When that happens, mistakes like the one Wells made on Max Muncy\u2019s bunt in the eighth \u2014 when the Yankees didn\u2019t record an out on the play \u2014 and a botched relay to third from Cody Bellinger to Jazz Chisholm Jr. later in the inning become more magnified.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Schmidt\u2019s first start since he pitched seven innings of no-hit ball<\/a> before being pulled after 103 pitches, the right-hander was solid until the sixth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schmidt saw his scoreless streak end at 28 innings when Brent Rooker took him deep with one out in the fourth. It was the longest single-season streak by a Yankee since Allie Reynolds pitched 30 straight shutout innings in 1951.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clarke Schmidt of the New York Yankees reacts after Brent Rooker of the Athletics scores on his solo homer in the fourth inning. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

And Schmidt gave up a three-run shot to Nick Kurtz with one out in the sixth, as Schmidt allowed more than three runs \u2014 as well as more than one homer \u2014 for the first time since April 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schmidt blamed that blast on \u201cterrible pitch selections.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Yankees threatened against Sears for the first \u2014 and only \u2014 time in the bottom of the third.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LeMahieu opened with a walk before Sears retired Jasson Dom\u00ednguez and Goldschmidt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cody Bellinger and the Yankees couldn\u2019t get anything going on Saturday. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Volpe followed with the second walk of the inning to bring up Judge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sears fell behind 3-1 to Judge before he flied out to the warning track in right to keep the game scoreless.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rooker homered off Schmidt in the next inning, which proved to be enough for Sears and the pen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The lefty tossed 5 \u00b2\/\u2083 shutout innings, surprisingly dominant given Sears\u2019 recent performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He began the season with an ERA of 2.80 over his first eight starts, but followed that with an 8.75 ERA in his next eight and had allowed eight earned runs in 8 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings in his previous two starts heading into Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jasson Dom\u00ednguez strikes out in the fifth inning of the Yankees\u2019 loss to the A\u2019s on Saturday. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

But he kept the Yankees off balance, with Bellinger\u2019s opposite-field single in the first their only hit until Goldschmidt led off the bottom of the sixth with a base hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s took control of the game in the sixth after Schmidt walked the first two batters of the inning. He recovered to fan Rooker on three pitches, but Kurtz homered into the right field seats to put the Yankees in a 4-0 hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the Yankees couldn\u2019t muster anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nick Kurtz of the Athletics is greeted by his teammates after he scores on his three-run homer in the sixth inning on Saturday afternoon. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going through it a little bit right now,\u2019\u2019 LeMahieu said. \u201cI have all the confidence in the world we\u2019ll turn it around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw it the first two months,\u201d LeMahieu said. \u201cIt\u2019s a long season \u2026 I know we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forget flirting with a no-hitter. Clarke Schmidt would have had to pitch a perfect game to give the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5244,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,21284,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-23509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-clarke-schmidt","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-oakland-as","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764580667661072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}