Yankees skid hits seven as offensive woes continue in painful extra-inning loss to Tigers

The Yankees are now in seventh hell.The Bronx felt like it on Wednesday afternoon, too, as an announced crowd of 37,117 sorry souls sat in suffocating 95-degree heat to watch the same lifeless offense for eight innings, then get some hope in the ninth before leaving still miserable by the end of the day.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

After the Yankees came back to tie the game in the ninth, they wasted chances to win it in the ninth and 10th innings before Camilo Doval unraveled in the 11th, resulting in an even more frustrating seventh straight loss, 6-2 to the Tigers.Doval entered for the 11th and got two quick outs on a pair of ground balls.The Yankees then intentionally walked Riley Greene to bring up the right-handed hitting Hao-Yu Lee.

Greene stole second as Doval got ahead 0-2 on Lee, then proceeded to walk him and Spencer Torkelson (on a full-count, 99 mph sinker in the dirt) to put the Tigers ahead 3-2.Zach McKinstry came up and roped a two-run single through the right side, with another run scoring on the play as catcher Ali Sánchez’s throw to second base went into center field, capping off a four-run rally.The Yankees (48-38) then went in order in the bottom of the 11th against Keider Montero, drawing boos from whatever fans were still left after subjecting themselves to torture.The Yankees had suffered some similar extra-inning heartbreak earlier in their skid on Sunday night in Boston, when they came back from a 2-0 deficit in the ninth inning and went ahead 4-2 in the 10th before falling 5-4 to the Red Sox in their fourth straight loss.Sign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.

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