Amid a team-wide offensive drought, New York Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger didn’t mince words when discussing the team’s current mood. The first-place Yankees suffered their third straight shutout and season-high fifth consecutive loss on Tuesday, losing 4-0 to the Los Angeles Angels.
Yankees OF Cody Bellinger Offers Candid Take During Losing Skid
Losing doesn’t really define character; it reveals it. How a team deals with the stress and helplessness of losing will paint a picture as to how they endure and attempt to overcome adversity. In the Bronx, no one has time for the continued navel-gazing and moping.
Instead, New York remains hell-bent on winning games, regardless of circumstances. With an annual mandate to win, the team needs to find a way to fix the issue.
Following Tuesday’s loss, Bellinger discussed the Yankees’ frustrating offensive struggles during his postgame press conference.
Cody Bellinger was asked what the mood is with the Yankees right now:
“As an offense, it’s definitely frustrating. The only thing you can do now is wake up tomorrow and continue to play your best baseball. I trust the guys in this locker room.” pic.twitter.com/9lQ8StZrTe
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“As an offense, it’s definitely frustrating,” said the former NL MVP. “The only thing you can do now is wake up tomorrow and continue to play your best baseball. I trust the guys in this locker room. We’ve done it plenty of times this year. Play for each other and keep on going.”
Bellinger can certainly speak to struggling at the plate. In his last 20 at-bats, the two-time All-Star collected just two hits (.100 batting average).
Worse, the outfielder’s power has also vanished, producing just one home run over his last 22 games.
The team as a whole cannot get a hit, managing just five runs over its last six games. That’s not a recipe for winning baseball, especially in the tough AL East.
The brutal slump has infected the entire offense. Even Aaron Judge, the presumptive AL MVP, cannot buy a hit right now, tallying two hits in his last 19 trips to the plate (.105 average in that span). Of his 17 outs, 12 have come via strikeout, so he’s struggling just to make contact right now.
Cold spells happen, but this one is particularly unusual given that it’s happened at hitter-friendly parks like Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. It’s also happened against the relatively weak pitching staffs of the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Angels.
That said, it’s only June, so New York still has plenty of time to pull out of its funk. With two more home games against the Angels followed by a three-game series against the miserable Baltimore Orioles, the Bronx Bombers will have plenty of opportunities to get back on track at home this week before hitting the road next week.