About Yesterday Afternoon: Full Swoon Ahead. Twins 6, Yankees 1
- Tim Kabel
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About Yesterday Afternoon: Full Swoon Ahead. Twins 6 - Yankees 1
By Tim Kabel
July 6, 2026
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The Yankees one-game winning streak is now consigned permanently to memory. They have started a fancy new losing streak. Right now, it is in its infancy at only two days old, but there's hope. The Yankees will be playing four games against the Rays in Tampa beginning today and then will finish up the pre-All-Star Game portion of the season with a three-game series in Washington.
Joe Ryan scattered three hits over seven scoreless innings and the Minnesota Twins, yes, those Minnesota Twins, won a series at Yankee Stadium for the first time since 2014. The Yankees were 128-47 against the Twins since 2002 heading into yesterday's game. Not only did they lose another game, but they also lost the series. That's baseball, Suzyn.
The Yankees struggled in every aspect of the game yesterday, and frankly they have been doing that for a while now. The Twins outscored the Yankees 17-5 in the final two games of the series after going 1-12 with runners in scoring position Friday night.
Ryan Weathers allowed four runs on six hits and two walks in four innings. He is now 3-7 on the season. He has an ERA of 4.29. His WHIP is 1.25. In technical, pitching coach-type terms, he stinks. For some reason, after Paul Blackburn pitched a scoreless inning of relief, Aaron Boone decided to bring Camilo Doval in yet again. Naturally, he gave up two runs. This brings me to a Camilo Doval question. On Saturday, in a game the Yankees lost 11-4, why didn't Boone leave Doval in to finish the game since it was clearly out of hand. Instead, he brought in Brent Headrick, who is one of his competent and regularly used relievers? It made no sense. To borrow a line from The King and I, “Is a puzzlement”. Perhaps I am being foolish for expecting Aaron Boone to make sense, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
Yesterday, the offense was clearly ineffective. They only mustered five hits and two of those came in the 9th inning. Austin Wells actually had a hit and raised his batting average to .153. Do I see a Silver Slugger in his future? No, I don't. The Yankees offense is as flat as a glass of ginger ale that sat out on the counter for a week.
As far as the defense, this is where it gets fun. Do you remember, dear reader, that on Friday, Aaron Boone said that Jose Caballero would be the regular shortstop. He stated that Anthony Volpe would play once in a while, but Caballero would not be bounced all over the field. He would only fill in at other positions in an emergency. Well, on Saturday, Caballero was on the bench. Boone's explanation for this was that Caballero had “played a ton lately”. Apparently, Boone did not remember that the team had an off-day on Thursday. So naturally, Caballero was back in at shortstop yesterday, correct? What's that? He wasn't? No, say it ain't so. Caballero was playing third base. Anthony Volpe played shortstop. This is the part you won't believe. Anthony Volpe made an error in the 6th inning, leading to two unearned runs. While I'm sure that Camilo Doval would have figured out some way to give up those runs, Volpe certainly didn't help.
What I don't understand is why Boone would have even made the statement that Caballero is going to be the everyday shortstop if he was going to immediately rescind that and have Volpe play there the next two games. Trusting Aaron Boone to not play Anthony Volpe is like trusting Dom DeLuise with a box of chocolates in Silent Movie.
Buckle up, friends. The Boone-Swoon is underway. The month of June was just the beginning. I know you can't blame Aaron Boone for injuries, but he continues to make awful decisions. He is not a good manager. He never was a good manager. He never will be a good manager. Replacing him now would give the new manager a chance to get settled and hopefully build something that will be augmented when the injured players return. Aaron Boone has no answers. He won't have any answers when all the injured players return. He will figure out some way of losing if they even make it to the playoffs. Now is the time to cut bait.
A Few Tidbits:
· The Yankees have lost 9 of their last 10 games. Playing .100 baseball is the dictionary definition of a swoon.
· The Yankees committed 20 errors in their last 15 games.
· The Yankees are 4-13 In their last 17 games. You can look that up. It's under B for Boone-Swoon.
· The Yankees have allowed 29 unearned runs in their last 15 games.
· The Yankees did not have a runner reach third base until the 9th inning yesterday.
· Jazz Chisholm junior left the game after the 5th inning due to a right toe injury.
· Yesterday was Goose Gossage’s 75th birthday.
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Today, the Yankees will open a four-game series against the Rays at 6:40 PM at Tropicana Field. Cam Schlittler, (8-5, 2.08 ERA) will face Griffin Jax, (4-5, 3.45 ERA).
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Jazz is a child with minimal focus and pain tolerance. Yesterday pick off while playing with his flashy gloves (2nd such this season) is enough. Now he has a boo boo on his toe and leaves game. Enough of this nonsense! I said move mr. 50 50 last winter when he had value, that ship has sailed. Who would want him now? This middle infield has and is killing them. Also, go get a catcher. What are they waiting for? Whatever is wrong with wells, i don't know. But you can't start a guy hitting 150 with 10 rrbi after almost half the season. Its sad because he's a gritty guy, and they need that, but 150 is 150.
How many times does Aaron Boone say things that simply aren't true from one day to the next?
One would think that at some point the people that run the franchise would realize that the team and the people speaking for it are embarassing.