The best thing we can say about this game is that it was short — just over two and a half hours for the Yankees to get blanked yet again. It wasn’t even really that painful to watch, the Yankee offense was just completely asleep and very little of any interest happened. I said this on Friday: if the Yankees must lose I’d rather they lose the way they did two weekends ago against Boston, where at least you’re showing up as a representative team. Tonight, for the fifth consecutive game, they didn’t, and the Angels won 4-0.

I’m not a big Dilbert fan—not just because the creator went insane—but there’s one panel that I love, where Alice notes that “deserve is a loser word used by losers when they lose.” In that sense, the Yankees deserved better tonight — or at least, the starting pitcher did.

Will Warren was the definition of a hard-luck loser, setting a new career high with 11 strikeouts across six innings. He was on from the word go, sitting down the leadoff hitter in the first, and getting Mike Trout to close the opening frame. His four-seam fastball in particular had great life up in the zone, getting eight whiffs and 11 called strikes on the night.

Warren did give up six hits and three earned runs, but you could make a pretty good case that at least one of the run-scoring hits, maybe both, were errors:

That right there is the ballgame; everything else in this recap or comment section is window dressing. Ian Hamilton would allow a fourth run in the eighth, a groundout with the bases loaded, only one of the runners reaching via hit.

The Yankees never even got more than one man on base at the same time. Cody Bellinger doubled with two out in the first; nothing. Leadoff hitter Jasson Domínguez singled and stole a bag; nothing happened. Giancarlo Stanton does seem to be doing just fine, with another 2-for-4 performance echoing what he did Monday night, but the rest of the lineup is just washed away. At 29 consecutive scoreless innings, it’s their longest such streak since September 2016.

I don’t know what the solution is. Every team goes through cold spells, but it’s so strange to see 8 of 9 guys — really, 9 of 10, depending on which of Ben Rice or Paul Goldschmidt gets the call on any given day — completely disappear. We knew that Aaron Judge was going to come slightly back to earth, but he’s dropped 15 points of wRC+ in five days. Yeah, a 230 is still otherworldly, but to just vanish as an offensive threat…

The third consecutive shutout loss ties a franchise record for offensive futility. Maybe we’ll get to see some history tomorrow. Perhaps, the best way to close this is with my own tweet.

Ryan Yarbrough gets the ball tomorrow, but like Warren today, Clarke Schmidt yesterday, and Max Fried Sunday, it might just not matter. If you can’t get runs across the plate, Prime Pedro Martinez isn’t helping you win. This team needs to score.

Game three in this series is another 7:05pm Eastern start, but take note that it’s on Prime.