No offense, no win: Yankees fall 8-0 to Orioles on Old Timers’ Day

Source: FanGraphs

Well that was a disappointing weekend. The Yankees got blown out 8-0 on Sunday afternoon and were a Zach Britton disaster inning away from being swept by the Orioles in this three-game series. Let’s recap the loss:

• Deserved Better: Masahiro Tanaka gave the Yankees seven innings of three-run ball, and while that certainly isn’t his best game of the season, it’s a very winnable game. Instead he received his second loss of the year. Tanaka allowed a solo homer to Jonathan Schoop — Schoop is the first player to take Tanaka deep twice in MLB — before the O’s tacked on two runs with his pitch count over 100 in the seventh inning. He struck out six and walked one. There’s no way you could pin this loss on Tanaka.
• NOffense: Brett Gardner led the game off with a triple but over-slid the bag and was tagged out. The Yankees only had three more hits and two other runners reach third base the rest of the game. They did draw four walks, but big whoop. The four through eight hitters went a combined 0-for-17 and one of their best chances to score came in the fourth inning, when they had runners on the corners with two outs. Kelly Johnson lined right back to Chris Tillman. Bad hitting and bad luck on Sunday.
• Blown Open: Adam Warren had his first real disaster outing of the season, allowing four runs in the eighth thanks in part to Steve Pearce’s illegal take-out slid on Johnson at third base. Replays showed Pearce clearly went out of his way to take out Johnson on the would-be 5-3 double play — he was nowhere close to being able to touch the base — but instead the throw sailed into the stands. Instead of there being a runner on second with two outs, there were runners on second and third with one out. J.J. Hardy cleared the bases with a double later in the inning.
• Leftovers: Ichiro Suzuki had two of the four hits and seems to be playing just well enough to get a new contract to be the fourth outfielder after the season … David Huff allowed a solo homer to Caleb Joseph in the ninth, the first homer of his career. Caleb is Corban Joseph’s brother … Gardner and Jacoby Ellsbury both had a hit and a walk … Yangervis Solarte went 0-for-4 and is now hitless in his last 28 at-bats. The Solarte Partay’s over, folks … the Yankees have now been outscored 170-128 in 35 home games. lol

MLB.com has the box score and video highlights, FanGraphs has some other stats, and ESPN has the updated standings. The Yankees are off to Toronto for another three-game set against the first place Blue Jays, which is pretty big for a late-June series. Chase Whitley and Marcus Stroman will be the pitching matchup in Monday night’s opener.