Season-High Momentum Is Changing the Yankees’ Outlook

The Yankees just stacked their sixth straight win, their longest run of 2025 and their best stretch since last summer. For a club still fighting for October, it lands like a shot of espresso.

The last time they put together something like this, you have to flip back to May 29-June 6, 2024, when they rattled off eight in a row. That was their longest streak since 2022, a run that ended with Trent Grisham’s Bronx breakout against Minnesota. Now, a year later, they’re finding their late-August push again.

The formula has been familiar. The Yankees score early, tack on late and let the bullpen hold the middle. The new faces have mattered, too. Grisham and Cody Bellinger have kept the offense moving while the stars heat up. Five of the six wins have come by multiple runs, powered by the long ball.

Friday night’s out-of-town scoreboard only sweetened things. Milwaukee beat the Blue Jays 7–2. Pittsburgh and Paul Skenes handled the Red Sox. That double favor pushed the Yankees past Boston into second place in the American League East and within three games of Toronto. Even bigger, it gave New York a half-game lead in the top wild-card spot.

For perspective, the Yankees’ franchise record remains the 19-game heater in 1947, still tied for the fifth-longest in the modern era. The ghosts of the 1916 New York Giants (26 straight) and 2017 Cleveland Indians (22) aren’t being chased here. This streak is about playoff posture.

Around the league, Milwaukee has set the standard with a 14-game streak earlier this month, already one of multiple double-digit bursts for the Brewers this year.

Six in a row for the Yankees isn’t history-book stuff, but it matters now. It changes the math in the division, lightens the bullpen load and tightens the dugout vibe. Keep stacking wins like this, and New York won’t just reach October — they’ll arrive looking like trouble.