The New York Yankees showed up to Target Field on Monday night, but their bats seemingly stayed back in Boston.
In a lifeless 7-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins, the lineup managed only two hits, looking bewildered, beffudled, and lost.
The silence at the plate echoed through the stadium like a radio gone dead in the middle of a song.
The Toronto Blue Jays, on the other hand, beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 and stretched their AL East lead to five games.
Yankees’ offense goes ice-cold in Minnesota
Minnesota’s Simeon Woods-Richardson, a young arm still carving out his place in the majors, sliced through the Yankees’ order with surgical precision.
Entering with a middling 4.58 ERA, he delivered the best performance of his career when New York could least afford it.
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