Yankees Teeter on the Edge of a Historic Slide

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Kristie Ackert | Last updated Jun 17, 2025 11:28 PM ET

The New York Yankees are in a freefall. It’s one that’s starting to rewrite the record books in all the wrong ways.

Tuesday night’s 4-0 loss to the Angels was their fifth straight defeat, a season high. But the deeper issue is their offense, which has all but vanished. The Yankees have now been shut out in three consecutive games. That is something that’s only happened seven times in franchise history and it hasn’t happened nearly a decade.

The last time the Yankees were shut out in three straight games was 2016, according to YES Network research.

Manager Aaron Boone made a notable change to the lineup Tuesday. He said it was for balance, but at this point they need to do anything to try to jolt the bats.

He gave Jasson Dominguez his first start in the leadoff spot this season, the second of his career. But even that move couldn’t shake them loose. The Yankees managed just four hits, two off the bat of Giancarlo Stanton.

Dominguez had another of the hits and Cody Bellinger had the other. Aaron Judge went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. He’s 2-for-19 with 12 strikeouts over this stretch and heard some booing after his final at-bat on Tuesday night.

The Yankees have now rolled through 29 scoreless innings, a streak is approaching the franchise record of 37, set back in 1908, according to Baseball-Reference’s Katie Sharp.

This five-game skid, while not historic by itself, brings back echoes of last August, when the Yankees dropped eight in a row—their longest losing streak since 1995.

That slide was supposed to be rock bottom.

But, here we are after falling into a Fenway Funk, the Yankees brought the bad bats back with them.

Still, Boone wasn’t panicking.

“We are one of the best offenses in the league and had a tough few days,” he told reporters after the game. “Maybe pressing a little bit.

“Maybe guys are feeling like gotta get something going, but we’ve got to let it happen. We gotta go out there. Just really focus on having quality at-bats and that will happen.” Boone continued. “We'll get there, and hopefully tomorrow's that day. “

For a team that started the year looking like a powerhouse, the Bronx is suddenly very, very quiet.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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