Yankees Get Smoked By Tigers, Schlittler Gets Hit Hard In Sixth Straight Loss

The Yankees lost 9-3 to the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, and honestly, the score does not even fully explain how ugly this one felt. This was not one of those games where you say, “Hey, bad break here, bad break there.” No. This was Detroit walking into the Bronx, hitting five home runs, and sending the Yankees to their season-worst sixth straight loss.

How are we supposed to keep acting like this is normal?

The Yankees are now 48-37, and the bats once again looked like they were waiting for somebody else to wake them up. They finished with only four hits. And over their last five games, they have managed just 16 hits.

Cam Schlittler Finally Got Hit Hard

Look, Cam Schlittler has been one of the better stories for the Yankees this season. Nobody is running away from that. But this one? Not good. His words, not mine.

Schlittler gave up a career-high six runs on seven hits in four-plus innings. The Tigers hit four home runs off him, which is wild because he had only allowed six homers in his first 17 starts. His ERA jumped from 1.62 to 2.08, and this was the first time he really looked like a young pitcher getting pushed around.

Kerry Carpenter started it with a homer in the first. Riley Greene followed with one of his own. Spencer Torkelson then capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a two-run shot. Just like that, Yankees down 4-0 before half the crowd even finished complaining about traffic.

And this is where it gets funny, not lol funny, funny disgusting. Ben Rice answers with his 23rd homer in the bottom of the first, and you think maybe, just maybe, the Yankees have a little fight in them.

Nope.

Tarik Skubal settled in and made the Yankees look lost.

Skubal Shut Them Down

Skubal went six innings, allowed one hit, struck out nine, and walked nobody. The only real damage was the Rice homer. After that, he retired 12 straight.

This is what teams do when they have an ace on the mound. They give him a lead, he smells blood, and he shuts the door. The Yankees, meanwhile, are still searching for answers.

The bats are dead. The at-bats look stale. The pressure keeps building. And now every mistake feels like it turns into a three-run homer two seconds later.

The Error Made It Worse

In the sixth, José Caballero made a throwing error on a force play. James Outman came up right after and hit a three-run homer off Ryan Yarbrough. That made it 9-2, and at that point, the game was basically over.

That is what losing teams do during ugly stretches. They do not just get beat. They help the other team beat them.

Caballero went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and left runners on base. Spencer Jones went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts. Paul Goldschmidt went 0-for-4. Austin Sanchez went 0-for-3. The only Yankees hitter who had multiple hits was Jasson Domínguez, who went 2-for-4 and drove in a run in the ninth.

Good for Domínguez. At least somebody showed a pulse.

Schlittler Owned It, But The Yankees Still Have A Bigger Problem

After the game, Schlittler said he did not execute with two strikes and admitted he put the team down early. I respect that. He owned it. He said he has to learn from it and get ready for next week.

Fine. That is what a young pitcher should say.

But the Yankees problem is bigger than one bad Cam Schlittler start.

This team has stopped hitting. The defense is trash. The energy looks weird. The same lifeless feeling keeps showing up around this team, and Yankees fans already know whats up. Everybody wants to calm the fans down. Everybody wants to say, “It is baseball.”

No. Common sense.

When you lose six straight, when you collect 16 hits in five games, when your home ballpark turns into batting practice for the Tigers, you do not get to sell fans rainbow clouds.

Now Will Warren Has To Stop The Bleeding

The Yankees have the series finale on Wednesday afternoon, with Will Warren going against Troy Melton. And yes, now it becomes another one of those “stop the bleeding” games.

How many times have we heard that?

At some point, the Yankees have to stop talking about turning the corner and actually turn the corner. Because right now, they are not turning anything. They are spinning in place while the rest of the division watches.

Felix Pantaleón

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Born in Manhattan, New York, Felix Pantaleon is a Dominican-American digital content creator and the founder of NYYNEWS, one of the first and longest-running independent New York Yankees content creator platforms, active since 2005.

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