The Yankees are historically bad right now.
Their ninth-consecutive loss Tuesday night marked their longest losing streak in more than four decades, and another defeat Wednesday against the Washington Nationals would clinch their worst stretch in over a century.
The bats are struggling. The pitching is sputtering. And any hope for an improbable playoff run has largely dwindled.
The streak began with back-to-back losses to the Miami Marlins, continued with consecutive sweeps by the Atlanta Braves and rival Boston Red Sox, and extended Tuesday with a two-hit performance at home against the lowly Nationals.
Here is the Yankees’ losing streak by the numbers:
1982: That’s the last time the Yankees lost nine in a row. They finished 79-83 and missed the playoffs that season.
1913: A loss Wednesday night would give the Yankees their first 10-game losing streak since 1913. That was the 11th season in franchise history and the first since the team changed its name from Highlanders to Yankees.
.176: The Yankees’ team batting average across the nine losses is the worst in Major League Baseball over that stretch. Giancarlo Stanton is hitting .080 without a home run during the streak, while Aaron Judge and Gleyber Torres are both batting .182.
2.3: That’s how many runs per game the Yankees have averaged over the losing streak, which is again an MLB-worst. Their .557 on-base plus slugging percentage is last in the majors, too.
8.07: The unsightly ERA by Yankees’ starting pitchers over the last nine games is also the worst in MLB. The streak has coincided with absences by Nestor Cortes and Domingo German, while Carlos Rodon returned from a hamstring injury Tuesday and pitched well despite the loss.
35.2: The total innings pitched by Yankees starters during the streak is the lowest in the majors — and nearly eight innings fewer than the next American League team. Yankees starters are averaging fewer than four innings per game over that stretch.
.480: The Yankees’ winning percentage following Tuesday’s loss, good for a 60-65 record. The Yankees haven’t ended a season with a losing record since 1992, when Judge was an infant and fellow lineup regulars Torres, Harrison Bader and Anthony Volpe weren’t born.
0.1%: Those were the Yankees’ playoff odds following Tuesday’s loss, according to FanGraphs. They had a 8.9% chance of making the postseason before the start of the losing streak, when they were 64-60.
7: The Yankees are one of seven teams to endure a losing streak of at least nine games this season, joining the Oakland A’s, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and Arizona Diamondbacks. Among them, only Arizona has a winning record. Oakland’s 11-game losing streak is the longest thus far.
11: This is the 11th time in the Yankees’ 121-season history they’ve lost at least nine games in a row. Only three of the previous streaks extended beyond nine games.
12: The longest losing streak in team history is 12 games and occurred in 1908. The 2023 Yankees have a few more chances to avoid matching or exceeding that dubious mark.
19: That’s how many winning streaks of nine games or more the Yankees had between their nine-game losing streaks. The most recent such winning streak took place last year.
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