{"id":138015,"date":"2025-06-28T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/138015\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:03:14","slug":"yankees-offense-disappears-in-ugly-shutout-loss-to-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/138015\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ offense disappears in ugly shutout loss to A’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget flirting with a no-hitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clarke Schmidt would have had to pitch a perfect game for the Yankees to have had a chance against the A\u2019s on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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

After picking up a win on Friday with just four hits, the Yankees were completely shut down Saturday against an ex-Yankee \u2014 JP Sears \u2014 and the A\u2019s bullpen.<\/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.<\/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.<\/p>\n

He left a pair of runners on in the third, although he nearly sent one out in the sixth. Then he ran into an out at third base to end the game.<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton hasn\u2019t homered since his season debut nearly two weeks ago, while Paul Goldschmidt, Anthony Volpe, DJ LeMahieu and \u2014 especially \u2014 Austin Wells are in serious slumps.<\/p>\n

When that happens, mistakes like the one Wells made on Max Muncy\u2019s bunt in the eighth and a botched relay to third from Cody Bellinger to Jazz Chisholm Jr. later in the inning become more magnified.<\/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

On Saturday, the Yankees did just about everything wrong.<\/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.<\/p>\n

Schmidt saw his scoreless streak end at 26 innings when Brent Rooker took him deep with one out in the fourth.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

After a visit from pitching coach Scott Emerson, Sears fell behind Judge 3-1 before Judge flied out to the warning track in right to keep the game scoreless.<\/p>\n

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

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The lefty tossed 5 \u2154 shutout innings, surprisingly dominant given Sears\u2019 recent performance.<\/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 \u2153 innings in his previous two starts heading into Saturday.<\/p>\n

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

The A\u2019s took control of the game in the sixth after Schmidt walked the first two batters of the inning \u2014 his first walks of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

After Goldschmidt\u2019s single to start the sixth, Sears got Bellinger to fly to left and Judge sent a fly ball to the warning track in center for the second out.\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

In the eighth, with Allan Winans in the game, the A\u2019s had runners on first and second with no one out when Muncy popped up a bunt in front of Wells, who let it drop and then fired late and wild to first base and no outs were recorded.<\/p>\n

Austin Wynns\u2019 two-run single gave the A\u2019s more insurance, as they won for just the second time in seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forget flirting with a no-hitter. Clarke Schmidt would have had to pitch a perfect game for the Yankees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,1216,4,3226,62,7932,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-138015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-clarke-schmidt","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-athletics","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-oakland-as","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114763019423248854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}