The Yankees finally broke their scoreless streak Wednesday.
As for their losing streak, that’s still going strong after another ugly defeat to a sub-.500 Angels team.
The 3-2 loss came after general manager Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone preached calm earlier in the day, saying their offense is too good to keep slumping.
But Boone also stressed the importance of doing the “little things” when you’re not hitting well.
Then the Yankees went out and booted balls, ran into outs and failed to get a bunt down.
It all added up to a sixth straight loss, as the Yankees have gone from riding high in the AL East to looking very average.
Their lead in the division dropped to 1 ½ games — the Yankees’ smallest margin since May 5 — over Tampa Bay, thanks to the Rays coming back from an eight-run deficit to beat Baltimore.
The Yankees’ six-game losing streak is their longest since August 2023.
“When we’re not scoring a lot of runs, you’ve got to execute at the highest level on little things,” said Boone, whose team finished with just three hits. “And we haven’t done that this week.”
Anthony Volpe (right) throws wide of Oswald Peraza for an error that brought home the Angels’ go-ahead run in the eighth inning of the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Angels on June 18, 2025.
After an Anthony Volpe error helped lead to the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth, the Yankees had a chance to tie it again in the bottom of the inning, when Ryan Zeferjahn entered for the Angels and walked Jasson Domínguez and hit pinch-hitter Austin Wells.
But Trent Grisham couldn’t get a bunt down and then popped out.
And Aaron Judge, in the middle of his first slump, flied out to center before Cody Bellinger popped out to end the threat.
It came as the Yankees, shut out in their three previous games — and 30 innings — got a solo homer from Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the bottom of the second, tying the game at 1-1.
Jazz Chisholm hits a solo homer during the second inning of the Yankees’ loss to the Angels.
Chisholm turned on a 97-mph sinker from right-hander Jack Kochanowicz and sent it 407 feet deep, just inside the right field foul pole for the Yankees’ first run since the top of the ninth of Saturday’s loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Bellinger added a second solo shot off Kochanowicz with one out in the fourth to give the Yankees their first lead, but it didn’t last.
Jo Adell hit Ryan Yarbrough’s first pitch of the fifth inning 436 feet into the visiting bullpen in left-center to make it 2-2, the second solo homer allowed by Yarbrough on the night.
Aaron Judge, who went 0-for-4, grounds out in the fourth inning of the Yankees’ loss to the Angels.
The Yankees still couldn’t get anything going for most of the night outside of the solo homers off of Kochanowicz, who had a 5.93 ERA over his previous 12 starts.
And after Boone stressed prior to the game that their lack of results at the plate increased the importance of being fundamentally sound, Grisham ran into Bellinger’s slow grounder to second for the second out in the sixth inning.
Paul Goldschmidt followed by flying to left.
Anthony Volpe, tagged about attempting to steal by Zach Neto earlier in the game, made a crucial error in the eighth inning that led to the go-ahead run in the Yankees’ loss to the Angels.
Fernando Cruz loaded the bases with one out in the eighth on three walks before being replaced by left-hander Tim Hill.
Hill got Adell to hit a grounder right at Volpe, but the shortstop booted it and then made a bad throw to second.
No outs were recorded on the potential double-play ball and the Angels took a 3-2 lead.
Cody Bellinger belts a solo homer in the fourth inning of the Yankees’ loss to the Angels.
“I’ve got to be aggressive,” said Volpe, who said the team wasn’t pressing. “We’re going out there every day, playing like Opening Day. I messed up.”
Hill retired the next two batters to keep it a one-run game, but the Yankees still fell short.
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