{"id":317534,"date":"2026-08-10T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317534\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:48:13","slug":"yankees-hitting-coach-tells-the-post-that-struggling-offense-will-be-better-for-it-in-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317534\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees hitting coach tells The Post that struggling offense will be &#8216;better for it&#8217; in end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before the Yankees were shut down again by Atlanta in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/09\/sports\/yankees-bats-waste-cam-schlittler-gem-in-10-inning-loss-to-braves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1, 10-inning loss Sunday<\/a>, they entered with some alarming numbers since Aaron Judge was sidelined by a fractured rib at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>During the stretch, they\u2019ve scored the fourth-fewest runs, had the lowest batting average and on-base percentage and highest strikeout rate in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Sunday\u2019s game, hitting coach James Rowson acknowledged the lineup\u2019s struggles in a conversation with The Post, but insisted the picture wasn\u2019t as bleak as the numbers might indicate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think when you look at where we\u2019re trying to go, we\u2019re at the time of year where our mindset is on trying to get wins,\u2019\u2019 Rowson said. \u201cThe end goal is not that we get the most hits. The end goal is that we score the most runs in the game. Whether we do that 3-2 or 9-3, I feel if we stay focused on winning games and not have tough days offensively as a distraction, we\u2019ll be better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even before the Yankees were shut down again by Atlanta in a 2-1, 10-inning loss Sunday, they entered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68,20,9,11,10,321,319,428],"class_list":["post-317534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-exclusive","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317534","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=317534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}