Yanks finally score, otherwise sputter in latest loss

NEW YORK -- The bully quality for the Yankees connected Wednesday was they scored a tally aft 30 consecutive scoreless innings. The atrocious quality was they again didn't people capable of them to win.

The Yankees fell to the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 to widen their season-long losing streak to six games. The Angels volition look to implicit a four-game expanse Thursday day astatine Yankee Stadium. The Yankees, whose pb successful the AL East has shrunk to 1½ games, volition look to look from an violative funk that has produced 7 runs successful 7 games.

"That's baseball," Yankees close fielder Aaron Judge said. "We cognize what we signed up for. You're going to play 162. You're going to deed a small rut similar this, but you can't springiness up. You can't mope astir it. You conscionable gotta amusement up the adjacent time and you got to beryllium acceptable to play."

Jazz Chisholm Jr. ended the Yankees' scoreless innings streak successful the 2nd inning with a moonshot solo location tally down the right-field line, giving New York its archetypal tally since the ninth inning Saturday against the Boston Red Sox. Two innings later, Cody Bellinger launched a solo changeable to springiness the Yankees their archetypal pb since past Thursday erstwhile they defeated the Kansas City Royals 1-0.

But the Yankees mustered conscionable 1 different deed -- a groundball from Bellinger successful the sixth inning that was ruled a azygous aft it bounced disconnected Trent Grisham arsenic helium ran to 2nd basal for the inning's 2nd out. Yankees manager Aaron Boone said helium believed his team's at-bats Wednesday were amended than they were Tuesday -- erstwhile helium said helium noticed his players pressing -- and pointed to the team's 4 walks arsenic progress.

But the Yankees went 0-for-3 with runners successful scoring presumption and are 5-for-48 (.277) with 12 strikeouts, 4 walks and 3 RBIs successful specified situations implicit their past 7 games.

"We conscionable gotta interruption done present similar we're susceptible of offensively," Boone said.

Judge, the two-time AL MVP who is simply a dense favourite to triumph a 3rd this season, has gone 1-for-19 with 11 strikeouts, 2 intentional walks and a location tally implicit the past 5 games. He went 0-for-4 connected Wednesday with 2 strikeouts, a 94.7 mph groundout and 107.9 mph flyout.

"Guys are pitching, they're doing their job," Judge said. "Sometimes we're faltering connected doing our job. But it's pugnacious to say. I deliberation it conscionable comes down to america not executing, america not doing our job. Maybe a small passive successful definite situations. But each we tin bash is amusement up time acceptable to go."

The Angels broke done to retake the pb successful the eighth inning Wednesday without a deed when, aft 3 walks, shortstop Anthony Volpe mishandled a groundball connected what should've been a routine, inning-ending treble play. Volpe, a Gold Glove victor successful 2023, was charged with his ninth mistake of the season, the second-most among shortstops crossed the majors.

"Right disconnected the bat, I got to beryllium aggressive, spell get the ball, marque the play," Volpe said. "As acold arsenic that, that's each it is. It's the archetypal work disconnected the bat."

The deficiency of execution trickled to the violative broadside successful the bottommost of the frame. The Yankees appeared acceptable to equine a rally erstwhile Jasson Dominguez walked and Oswald Peraza was deed by a transportation to statesman the inning. But they were near stranded arsenic Grisham, who was fixed the greenish airy to plaything distant with 1 onslaught aft failing to driblet down a bunt, popped out, earlier Judge flied retired and Bellinger popped retired to extinguish the threat.

"When we're not scoring a batch of runs, we got to execute connected the highest level connected the small things," Boone said. "And we haven't done that this week a fistful of times erstwhile we had immoderate opportunities."