Each one of these insane Yankees stats will make you barf harder than the last one

Welcome to 2025. A Yankees loss that would've been utterly life-ruining in 2000, 2009, or even 2017 happens every six games these days. Sometimes four games. Sometimes every day.

Sometimes, fan perception can skew reality. Things are rarely as bad as they feel at our lowest emotional moments. Occasionally, the team ranks top 10 in statistics that measure things it feels like they "can't" do. Unfortunately, these Yankees are exactly as bad at the things that cause us pain as it feels like they are. They have been since 2021 ... or maybe 2020 ... perhaps even 2018? Hmm. Was anyone specific hired that season?

Look on the bright side, though! 2024's rock bottom also happened with a blown save and walk-off in Texas. And what did that team do? Rallied, changed closers, made the World Series ... and found two more lower rock bottoms before the end of October. Oh.

Max Fried, Luke Weaver, Camilo Doval, and David Bednar holding a one-run lead by the skin of its teeth for several hours, only for Devin Williams to blow the save on a home run by a veteran with an OPS under .500 would've been the most memorable thing to ever happen to the pre-2020 Yankees. Sadly, now, it's just par for the course, as the Joc Pederson smash ensured extra innings and certain death.

Don't believe us? Not sure why you wouldn't, if you regularly watch this team, but here's that number you were looking for: 28 regular-season Ghost Runner walk-off losses since 2020, the most in baseball.

Yankees' road extra innings stats in 2025 are even more of a sick joke than usual after Rangers loss

"Well, at least writing about this team's ineptitude must be cathartic." No. It's awful. This team is awful.

It's tough to get worse than "leads the league in heartbreakers over the past six years," but somehow the 2025 Yankees have innovated on the form. With the free runner on second base once the 10th inning starts, it's far easier than it used to be to run into a chaotic box score, a new-generation gut punch where you score two-plus runs in the top frame, only to be easily matched in the bottom, sometimes with one swing.

The Yankees don't do that in 2025. They just never score. In six road extra-innings games, the Yankees still have a single hit across 33 at-bats.

That hit, even with a free runner on base, did not even score a run.

Their only run scored in a road extra frame this year came on a wild pitch. They also lost that game (in Cincinnati, on a day Mark Leiter Jr. may or may not have fractured his kneecap).

We'd call Monday night the cherry on top of the sh-t sundae if we had any hopes that this stretch was about to be over any time soon.

Unfortunately, the Yankees' 25-33 record since May 28 owes a lot of its Ls to the team's past 23 road games, meaning things are only trending further downward.

After Monday's predictable and dull debacle, the Yankees have now completed a 23-game road stretch with a 5-18 record and the highest amount of runs allowed in any 23-gamer in franchise history. By the end of this road trip, it'll reach 25 games. Who wants to see some 25-game-span history made?!

On Tuesday, it became 5-19 at the hands of Nathan Eovaldi, as Devin Williams entered once again, predictably loaded the bases, and got outfoxed by Rowdy Tellez.

Both runners who scored in this game belonged to Williams, who has now allowed the same number of earned runs (26) as he allowed in the years 2022-2024 with the Brewers. That's two full seasons and a half-season comeback from injury. Brian Cashman appears to have discovered the newest market inefficiency: dealing for closers immediately after they've been broken by playoff trauma.

At the very least, given the Yankees' boom-or-bust offense, struggles with elite right-handers, and propensity for deflation in the games that matter most, it was obvious this particular torture device was destined to be decided in regulation.