MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Yankees don\u2019t lose series often, but when they do, they get swept.<\/p>\n
At least their last two times, anyways, this one in crushing fashion.<\/p>\n
After arriving here as one of the hottest teams in baseball, winners of 16 of their last 19 games, the Yankees delivered a dud of a series, getting swept away by the Brewers, the last two games by walkoffs.<\/p>\n
On Sunday afternoon, it was David Bednar who gave up the game-winning home run to Brice Turang with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, handing the Yankees a 4-3 loss at American Family Field.<\/p>\n
That came on the heels of Saturday\u2019s 4-3 loss in 10 innings in which the bullpen and offense combined to waste Cam Schlittler\u2019s gem.<\/p>\n
The series loss was the Yankees\u2019 first since April 10-12, when they were swept by the Rays at Tropicana Field. <\/p>\n
In between, they went 6-0-1 in series.<\/p>\n
Making his first start in seven months, with elbow surgery in between, Carlos Rod\u00f3n looked like he was still knocking off some rust Sunday in his season debut. <\/p>\n
The left-hander walked five, hit a batter and threw a wild pitch, which turned into three runs across 4 1\/3 innings in which he only gave up two hits.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Brice Turang (2) celebrates with teammates after hitting a game winning home run in the ninth inning against the New York Yankees at American Family Field. Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
After undergoing surgery in October to remove loose bodies and shave down a bone spur, Rod\u00f3n had previously acknowledged that his command might be a work in progress as he learned to use his new range of motion in his left arm. <\/p>\n
That certainly appeared to be the case on Sunday, when he only threw 42 of his 78 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n
Yankees starting pitcher Carlos Rodon (55) throws a pitch in the first inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field. Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Rod\u00f3n walked the leadoff man in three of his first four innings. <\/p>\n
He pitched around it the first two times before it finally came back to hurt him in the fourth inning. <\/p>\n
He threw eight straight balls to begin the frame, then two pitches later, misfired a 95 mph fastball that hit Andrew Vaughn on the left shoulder to load the bases.<\/p>\n
After Rod\u00f3n got the first out at home on a fielder\u2019s choice, Garrett Mitchell lifted a sacrifice fly to make it a 2-1 game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, with former Yankees farmhand Blake Perkins at the plate, Rod\u00f3n sprayed a slider that got past J.C. Escarra to the backstop, allowing the runners to move up to second and third. <\/p>\n
Yankees outfielder Spencer Jones hits an RBI single during the second inning of their game against the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field. Mark Hoffman\/USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images<\/p>\n
That proved costly when Perkins roped a single to center field, allowing both runs to score for the 3-2 Brewers lead.<\/p>\n
But the Yankees tied it back up in the top of the sixth. <\/p>\n
After Aaron Judge was thrown out trying to steal second, Cody Bellinger drew a walk and came all the way around to score on Jazz Chisholm Jr.\u2019s double into the right-field corner off lefty reliever DL Hall.<\/p>\n
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The Yankees had quickly jumped out to a 2-0 lead by the second inning. <\/p>\n
Judge crushed a solo shot off Logan Henderson in the top of the first \u2014 his 16th of the season and 13th in his last 27 games \u2014 before Spencer Jones picked up his first career hit with an RBI single smoked up the middle in the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Yankees don\u2019t lose series often, but when they do, they get swept. At least their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67648,17704,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-226618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-bednar","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}