When it rains, it pours. On a day when the Yankees received one of Clarke Schmidt’s best starts of the season, the offense could get little going, with mental errors in the field exacerbating the punchless bats. You can only hold down the top-scoring offense in baseball for so long, and that tipping point came in the tenth as the Rangers take the series opener, 4-2.
Clarke Schmidt had to expend a tremendous amount of energy to make it through the first two innings. A pair reached in the first on a single and and strikeout wild pitch that should have been ruled a passed ball on Trevino, but a Josh Jung flyout ended the threat.