Yankees swept by Brewers after another walk-off loss
- Davis Cornell
- May 10
- 4 min read
The Brewers walked off the Yankees 4-3 for the second game in a row to complete the three-game sweep. Carlos Rodon took the baseball for the Yankees, making his season debut, and faced off against Logan Henderson.
“Tough weekend, obviously,” Aaron Boone said. “Didn't play our best, and just, I thought they pitched really well against us and matched up well against us, but just not able to string together enough big hits there.”
With two outs in the top of the first inning, Aaron Judge crushed a solo shot to right, tying him for the MLB lead with 16 home runs and giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
Rodon walked the first batter he faced, then picked up his first two strikeouts of the season to help strand that runner.
José Caballero drilled a one-out double in the left-center gap in the top of the second. Spencer Jones followed with an RBI single for his first Major League hit, extending the Yankees' lead to 2-0.
Rodon threw eight straight balls to open the bottom of the fourth and plunked a batter, putting his walk total up to four and loading the bases with nobody out. Garrett Mitchell cut the Yankees' lead in half with a sacrifice fly. Rodon had a chance to get out of it with the Yankees' lead intact, but surndered a two-out two-run single to Blake Perkins, giving the Brewers a 3-2 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, Rodon surrendered a one-out single, then walked a batter on four pitches, his fifth walk of the game to end his day. Jake Bird replaced him and picked up a couple of strikeouts with some help from a great ABS challenge from J.C. Escarra.
Final line for Rodon: 4.1 innings pitched, two hits allowed, three earned runs, walking five, and striking out four on 78 pitches. Rodon threw his fastball 36% of the time, the slider 32%, the sinker 21%, and the changeup 12%. Rodon topped out at 97.7 mph and averaged 95.7 on his fastball, while inducing nine total whiffs today.
“I mean, anytime you give up free base runners and walk the first guy of the inning, it's never a good thing,” Rodon said. “Bases loaded situation, I had two outs, obviously, they get the hit there. None of that happens if I get ahead and get guys out, so obviously, I need to be better in the aspect of attacking the zone and getting ahead quick.”
Judge worked a one-out walk in the top of the sixth, but then was thrown out trying to steal second base. Cody Bellinger then worked a two-out free pass, Jazz Chisholm Jr. followed with an RBI double off the wall in right to even the score at 3-3.
Paul Blackburn took over for Bird in the bottom of the inning. It looked like he picked up the first out of the inning, but a wild throw from Ryan McMahon allowed the runner to reach. With two outs and two runners on, Fernando Cruz came in relief for Blackburn and got Jackson Chourioto to fly out and strand both runners.
Tim Hill got the call for the bottom of the eighth inning and faced the minimum, thanks to a 6-3 double play.
Yankees closer David Bednar came in for the bottom of the ninth inning and picked up the first two outs, then served up a walkoff home run to Brice Turang to give the Brewers the 4-3 win and the sweep over the Yankees.
“Good swing by Turang there to finish it off,” Boone said. “So obviously a tough weekend part of it, and look forward to getting on to all the morning, and writing the ship.”
The Yankees will look to end their three-game losing streak against the Orioles in Baltimore, with Ryan Weathers on the mound; the O’s pitcher is still TBD. The first pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. ET on the YES Network.
My thoughts on the game: First off, Happy Mothers day to all the moms in the world! If you are lucky enough to still have your mom around, make sure you tell them you love her. I know my Mom always loves reading these, especially when she can't watch the games like today. I love you, Mom, and thank you for everything. Now for the game, Rodon's stuff looked good for his first start of the season; he just had no command over any of his pitches. Bird, Blackburn, Cruz, and Hill combined for 3.2 innings of shutout baseball. Bednarunforntley did not have it, surrendering the walk-off homer. Judge crushed another home run. Jones picked up his first career hit with an RBI single. Jazz also had a game-tying RBI double, which would have been a two-run double had Judge not gotten thrown out trying to steal. Rice went 0-for-4 again today, as he is now 0-for-13 since missing four straight games; he did hit the ball hard a couple of times today, so hopefully he can start heating back up. The Yankees fall to 1-8 against teams above .500, which has to change if this team is going to do anything in October. Not much more to say, just a frustrating series all around. On to tomorrow, as the Yankees will look to hopefully end their losing streak.
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