Yankees' worst lost of the year just dropped and it had everything fans would expect

Though some of those early-season losses against the Athletics, Rays and Angels were gross, they still weren't fully packages with your typical Yankees' malfeasance. Fortunately, we had to wait until the second week of May for that after the Bombers dropped Saturday night's game against the Brewers.

New York lost its first series in a month in Milwaukee this weekend, with last night's effort serving as the classic back-breaker. This one had everything, from overall poor play to questionable managerial decisions to endless strikeouts to failures with RISP to defensive miscues.

Let's begin, shall we? The 4-3 final after 10 innings wasted another brilliant Cam Schlittler start. He went six scoreless, struck out six, and avoided an injury scare when he was hit on the calf with a line drive off the bat of William Contreras.

The Yankees struck out 15 times and went 3-for-14 with RISP. But the downfall started with Aaron Boone, who decided to give the overused Brent Headrick split-inning duty and then immediately turned to the volatile Camilo Doval in the eighth inning with New York leading 2-1.

Headrick gave up a homer to former Yankee Jake Bauers (classic) and then was tasked with getting the first out of the eighth. He did just that. Then Doval came in and allowed a single, a stolen base, and another single. Just like that, the game was tied.

In a vacuum, going to Doval there wasn't unforgivable. It surely was questionable, but there is a world where the Yankees need to test him in high-leverage to see if he can remain a contributor throughout 2026. What was unforgivable happened shortly after, as Boone used EVERY OTHER HIGH-LEVERAGE ARM IN SUCCESSION.

Yankees better hope horrific loss to Brewers doesn't snowball losing streak

On Friday night, the Yankees got by using two pitchers, one of whom was Kervin Castro. It worked out perfectly. Their bullpen fodder, who is surely getting optioned on Sunday, got the job done with two innings after Max Fried went seven. Everybody was rested and ready to handle a tight game on Saturday and/or Sunday if necessary.

But Boone went off script for whatever reason and went to his inferior option, forcing the entire situation to spiral out of control.

Hope wasn't entirely lost after that point, though. Doval got out of the inning and then the Yankees turned to David Bednar in the bottom of the ninth, who got them to extras. The Yankees in extra-inning road games is the nightmare of all nightmares for fans, but for a moment it seemed this would be alright.

After the Brewers intentionally walked Aaron Judge to put runners on first and second, Ryan McMahon delivered a clutch two-out RBI single to put the Yanks ahead 3-2. That would then bring Jazz Chisholm to the plate ... oh wait ... hmmm ... Judge got caught trying to go from first to third and was tagged out to end the inning. Why are we doing this with two outs?

As everybody knows, one run is NEVER enough when you're the road team in extras. Never. And it wasn't!

In 2/3 of an inning, Boone used two more relievers in Cruz and Hill. Cruz walked the No. 8 hitter and then got unlucky after Jackson Chourio reached on an infield single. After that, Cruz was lifted with two runners on and one out.

And then came Tim Hill, who got Brice Turang to ground out ... until he didn't. Turang hit a weak grounder to Hill, who had the easy out at first base. But instead he rifled the ball to third base, with nobody on the bag, and the ball hit Luis Rengifo in the head. Now the bases were loaded with Contreras coming to the plate.

Joe Girardi broke it down perfectly on the broadcast. For whatever reason, Hill's decision to throw to third with one out really ruined everything. Had he gotten the second out by throwing to first, the Yanks could've walked Contreras to load the bases and then Hill could've went 1-on-1 with Bauers in a lefty-lefty matchup. That would've greatly increased their odds of getting out of the inning.

But Contreras hit a sacfrice fly to Judge, scoring the winning run. A bizarrely boring ending after a relatively chaotic four innings.

Carlos Rodón's season debut will now come with the pressure of the Yankees looking to avoid a brutal sweep after they got dinked and dunked against Jacob Misiorowski and then handed Saturday's game away.

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