Yankees offense completely disappears in ugly shutout loss to As

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.Forget flirting with a no-hitter.Clarke Schmidt would have had to pitch a perfect game for the Yankees to have had a chance against the A’s on Saturday.Instead, Schmidt — who hadn’t allowed a run in his previous three starts — gave up four and the Yankees offense went missing again, as they were thumped, 7-0, by the lowly A’s in The Bronx.After picking up a win on Friday with just four hits, the Yankees were completely shut down Saturday against an ex-Yankee — JP Sears — and the A’s bullpen.And the defeat displayed several worrying trends for the Yankees, who remain in first place in the AL East, but often haven’t looked like a first-place team.Aaron Judge continued his cold streak, and the rest of the lineup hasn’t been able to pick him up.He left a pair of runners on in the third, although he nearly sent one out in the sixth.

Then he ran into an out at third base to end the game.Giancarlo Stanton hasn’t homered since his season debut nearly two weeks ago, while Paul Goldschmidt, Anthony Volpe, DJ LeMahieu and — especially — Austin Wells are in serious slumps.When that happens, mistakes like the one Wells made on Max Muncy’s bunt in the eighth and a botched relay to third from Cody Bellinger to Jazz Chisholm Jr.later in the inning become more magnified.On Saturday, the Yankees did just about everything wrong.In Schmidt’s first start since he pitched seven innings of no-hit ball before being pulled after 103 pitches, the right-hander was solid until the sixth.Schmidt saw his scoreless streak end at 26 innings when Brent Rooker took him deep with one out in the fourth.And he gave up a three-run shot to Nick Kurtz with one out in the sixth, as Schmidt allowed more than three runs- as well as more than one homer- for the first time since April 21.The Yankee offense threatened against Sears for the ...