A year after the Yankees won 99 games and Aaron Judge hit 62 homers to break Roger Maris’ single-season AL record, New York was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs with a rainy 7-1 loss Sunday to the Arizona Diamondbacks as Zac Gallen got his 17th win.
The last time the New York Yankees missed the postseason, Aaron Judge was a .179 hitter with 27 games of experience in 2016.
Beset by injuries, New York was eliminated from contention with a week to play. The Yankees, who finish with a six-game trip after Monday’s series finale, are in danger of finishing with a losing record for the first time since 1992. "That’s what you work hard towards all year round, the wintertime, spring training on through the season, for an opportunity to play in October and compete for a championship," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "So the reality of that not being in play sucks."
In their streak of 30 straight winning seasons, the Yankees have never won fewer than 84 games. That was in 2016 when Judge homered in his first at-bat a day after Alex Rodríguez’s final game and several veterans were traded at the deadline. On a windy, rainy afternoon when fly balls became unpredictable, Gallen allowed three hits in six innings, struck out eight and walked two. He won for the third time in four starts and posted his eighth scoreless outing this season.Tommy Pham and Christian Walker produced sacrifice flies on consecutive pitches in the first inning off Carlos Rodón and that was enough for Gallen, who is second in the majors in wins — two behind Atlanta’s Spencer Strider.
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