Each time it feels like the offense can go no lower, the Yankees find a new way to dismay us the following day. This time, the bats floundered against Nathan Eovaldi, who strolled his way to a complete game shutout, the first pitcher to do so against the Yankees since Houston’s Dallas Keuchel in 2015. And that’s not even the worst thing that happened in the Yankees losing effort.
With all the injuries the team has suffered through the first month, it felt like an episode of the Twilight Zone watching events transpire in the bottom of the first.