{"id":786299,"date":"2026-07-08T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786299\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:24:08","slug":"yankees-strike-out-17-times-vs-rays-for-2nd-straight-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786299\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees strike out 17 times vs. Rays for 2nd straight game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees<\/a> can’t stop striking out.<\/p>\n

In a 6-4 loss<\/a> to the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Tuesday night in St. Petersburg, Florida, New York whiffed 17 times to become the first team in American League history whose batters hit that mark in consecutive nine-inning games.<\/p>\n

Starter Ian Seymour<\/a>, one of five Rays to take the mound, struck out 12 batters in 5 innings; he’s the first pitcher on any team to have that many K’s through five innings against the Yankees in the last 50 years.<\/p>\n

A night earlier, Griffin Jax<\/a> struck out 10 in five innings of a 5-1 Rays loss.<\/p>\n

“You’re going to have nights where you’re up against a dominant pitcher, especially in today’s game where you have those double digits [strikeouts] here and there,” manager Aaron Boone told reporters Tuesday night. “But we got to do a better job of getting the ball in play.”<\/p>\n

Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> struck out four times Tuesday and is now in an 0-for-30 slide. Jose Caballero<\/a> also struck out four times.<\/p>\n

“That’s a lot of strikeouts,” Cody Bellinger<\/a> said of the 17 overall. “I knew we had 17 yesterday; I didn’t feel like we had that many today. But the Rays, they’ve notoriously got really good arms.”<\/p>\n

New York did manage 11 hits, reaching double digits for the first time since June 17, but the result — a 10th loss in 12 games — was all too familiar.<\/p>\n

Boone said his team, which fell four games behind the first-place Rays in the AL East, won’t change its approach but acknowledged some players need to get going.<\/p>\n

“We have to get some guys on track right now,” he said. “Some really good players obviously that are going through a tough time right now. So we’re not going to overhaul and change, but part of our approach is being a tough out and being situational, and we got to do a better job of that right now.”<\/p>\n

Overall, the Yankees now have 824 strikeouts this season, the third-highest mark in the AL.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to be down at the bottom, but we’re going to keep trying,” Boone said. “Were going to come here and grind away tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

It won’t get any easier. Rays lefty Shane McClanahan<\/a>, whose 77 strikeouts rank second on the Rays, will be on the mound, opposing Yankees ace Gerrit Cole<\/a> in the third game of the four-game set.<\/p>\n

Information from ESPN Research and The Associated Press was used in this report.br\/]<\/p>\n

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