Last night in Arlington, another costly decision by Aaron Boone led to a fifth straight Yankees loss as they got shut out 2-0 by the Texas Rangers. Before last night’s game, Boone said that in save situations, he’d be open to deploying pitchers other than Devin Williams.

Texas’s starter, Nathan Eovaldi, dominated the entire Yankees’ lineup, allowing just one hit through eight scoreless innings. Impressively, rookie starter Will Warren kept up with Eovaldi, permitting three hits and three walks across five scoreless innings. “Going back to last year and a little bit in the beginning of the year, there were some situations that happened today that I think in the past, a couple runs come out of,” said Warren, who stranded at least one runner in scoring position in four of his five innings pitched. His five scoreless starts this season are tied for the third most all-time among Yankees rookies.

Last night, the Yankees fell to the Rangers 8-5, and after their bullpen held it down for three innings, Devin Williams collapsed in the bottom of the ninth. He hung a changeup in the heart of the plate for the .126-hitting Joc Pederson, who tied the game with his third home run of the season.

“I’m trying to throw it down and away there, and missed middle – and obviously, [Pederson] did what he did,” said Williams, who has allowed at least one earned run in five of his last seven appearances. Also, for the first time in his career, he has allowed an earned run in three straight appearances, and he has blown a save in back-to-back games. “This game and the last one, it was really one pitch that hurt me; but that’s the difference between winning and losing sometimes, and I can’t let that happen.”

I have defended manager Aaron Boone for a long time.

I defended him two years ago when the Yankees went 82-80. I defended him last year when he chose Nestor Cortes over Tim Hill in Game 1 of the World Series. I even defended him when the Yankees made four errors in Toronto two weeks ago. But now, after getting swept in Miami for the first time in franchise history, Aaron Boone no longer seems fit to manage the New York Yankees.

The trade deadline has concluded, and the Yankees were successful. While they didn’t acquire a starting pitcher or a left-handed reliever, this deadline was a slam dunk. Brian Cashman gained a lot of tools, including three high-leverage bullpen arms, without giving up much.

Anthony Volpe is tied for the most errors in Major League Baseball. However, it isn’t due to a lack of defensive talent.

Last night in the Bronx, the Yankees rebounded from a poor offensive game with a 7-5 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. With the win, they gained 1.5 games in the American League East standings since Baltimore swept Toronto in a doubleheader. Max Fried was dominant for the Yankees, striking out nine batters while allowing four runs on a career-high 111 pitches. However, only two of the runs were earned.

The 2025 New York Yankees’ season was over. And then it wasn’t. On Saturday, the Yankees announced Aaron Judge was undergoing imaging for an “elbow issue.” Losing Aaron Judge for the year would mark the end of the Yankees’ season. In Tuesday’s game in Toronto, cameras caught Judge wincing after making a throw from right field. He served as the Yankees’ designated hitter the following day, the reason for which manager Aaron Boone later admitted was related to the discomfort Judge was feeling. He returned to right field on Friday night, but he struggled to make plays. The next morning, he was left out of the Yankees’ lineup.

Mark your calendars: July 23, 2025. The day the New York Yankees stopped being good enough to win a championship. With an 8-4 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday, the Yankees not only left Toronto with more hurdles to climb for the lead in the American League East but also made four errors in the process. Embarrassing. Unacceptable.

Yesterday’s win cut the Yankees’ deficit for the American League East lead to three games. However, the fears induced by Monday’s loss remain apparent in Yankees Universe. When Toronto beat the Yankees on Monday, Oswald Peraza and Anthony Volpe committed consecutive throwing errors in the fifth inning that each allowed a run to score. After the game, manager Aaron Boone dared to call Volpe one of the best shortstops in the league, and that while he may have committed many errors this season, “errors get handed out a lot of different places in a lot of different ways.” He added, “He’s still making plays, but he hasn’t been as consistent as he wants to be and as consistent as he normally is.”

They call Atlanta the Big A, which seems fitting for the city where Aaron Judge tied A-Rod for the sixth most home runs in Yankees history. The Yankees’ coaching staff was in Atlanta for the All-Star Game last week, and they extended their stay for a three-game weekend series. Thanks to a 4-2 win in yesterday’s rubber match, the Yankees secured the series win.

Right on time, too, with Boston beating Chicago and Toronto sweeping San Francisco. The Yankees will head north of the border today for their most important series of the season since Toronto leads them by three games in the American League East.

There is no worse feeling for a team than the bitterness of losing a championship. The feeling that every step of the season was worthless. The feeling of falling short on the greatest stage. It is impossible to fall any shorter. For the Yankees, their weaknesses brought them down in last year’s World Series, and they had to watch the Dodgers eliminate a 5-0 deficit in Game 5 and celebrate at Yankee Stadium.

That’s why this season is so important. The redemption tour. The chance for revenge. This is when a team reaches the ultimate crossroads between success and failure. Failure can appear in many forms, but at no point is the road to a championship clearer than right after losing one.

The headline entering this three-game series is that Mariners’ catcher Cal Raleigh leads Aaron Judge by two home runs this season, so last night, the Yankees rallied behind their captain with three home runs. One might expect a baseball team from Seattle to be used to rain, but the Yankees used their home field advantage to capitalize on a 35-minute rain delay. In the top of the fifth inning, Will Warren had a 2-1 count on JP Crawford with two outs and runners at the corners when the tarp was rolled out over the field. After the rain delay, it took Warren just one more pitch to retire Crawford. He finished the night with 5.2 scoreless innings.

After the Yankees got swept in a four-game series in Toronto for the first time ever, and lost their American League East division lead, manager Aaron Boone told his team that they are “the best team in the league.” “There’s been years where we haven’t been equipped to go through this,” said Boone. “[This] group is, and we will.”

But what if this team isn’t equipped to overcome this adversity? What if this team’s identity resembles their performance in June better than that of April and May? The Yankees seem to find themselves in a rut like this every single June and July. That is not an attribute of the best team in the league. Neither is the current state of the Yankees’ offense or bullpen amid this horrific stretch.

This one hurt. A lot. Last night, the Yankees fell to the Blue Jays 11-9, and with the loss, Toronto has tied them for the American League East lead. The Yankees now have losses in 13 of their last 19 games.

What started as a miserable night turned incredible and then heartbreaking. It was the Yankees’ most emotionally exhausting game since Game 5 of the World Series. It started with Will Warren, who gave up seven runs in the first inning and another in the third. Things felt quite bleak in Yankee Land as Alejandro Kirk two-run doubled and Addison Barger three-run homered before Warren could secure a single out. With one out, Davis Schneider delivered a two-run blast for Toronto to make it 7-0.

When refining his approach at the plate, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy must have told Caleb Durbin that “it’s all in the hips," because he assigned him the nickname “Happy.”

Happy Durbin. And why not? Durbin is living the dream, and he has been on a tear since his walk-off home run on June 7. He holds a .296 average over his last 30 days, “I mean, [the home run] didn’t hurt [my confidence],” Durbin said. “I think you just chase the feels, and I’ve definitely felt more comfortable. You don’t really feel settled in as a rookie, but you definitely feel like you’re getting back to what you do best, and that’s kind of been the case for me.”

The Yankees’ inability to drive home runners in scoring position continues to haunt them, and yesterday was no exception. They went 2-for-17 with runners in scoring position, en route to a 12-5 loss. According to New York Yankees Stats, since June 13, the Yankees as a team are batting a league-worst .166 with runners in scoring position with a .254 on-base percentage, a .482 OPS, and 54 strikeouts.

Here’s a crazy stat from OptaStats: Aaron Judge is the first MLB player in a single season ever to record 30 home runs and 110 hits before July. In yesterday’s 12-5 pounding of the not-so Athletics – not the Oakland Athletics, not the Sacramento A’s, but The Athletics – Judge crushed a couple of home runs for his 29th and 30th of the year. His 44th career multi-home run game passed Lou Gehrig for the third most in franchise history, and the Yankees took the series from the Athletics.

Max Fried continues to show why he deserves not just to start the All-Star Game for the American League, but to win a Cy Young at the end of the season. Last night, Fried threw seven innings, allowing just one unearned run while helping the Yankees secure a 7-1 victory to avoid a series sweep in Cincinnati.

The Yankees wasted a terrific performance by Carlos Rodón in which he shut out Cincinnati through six innings. After 88 pitches, with the Yankees leading 3-0, Aaron Boone decided to relieve Rodón in the seventh inning. Boone said the heat tired Rodón out, and Rodón agreed, saying, “I was huffing and puffing a little bit. Usually, I go back out there in those situations. I want the ball, but I could tell I was gassed.”