NEW YORK — They had seen enough. Scores of New York Yankees fans left their seats, filed up the steps in their sections and exited Yankee Stadium. It was only the top of the 11th inning. The Los Angeles Angels were winning by just one run, Yankees star Aaron Judge was slated for an at-bat in the frame’s bottom half, and if the fans stayed, there would have been a chance they all could have bragged the next morning about seeing a walk-off in person.
But they figured beating the traffic would be a better bet.
Hard to blame them. They were right.
The Yankees’ brutal offensive malaise stretched past a point anybody could have foreseen with a 1-0, 11-inning loss Monday night.
They haven’t scored in 20 innings, or since the ninth inning of Saturday’s loss. It’s the first time the Yankees have been shut out twice in a row since Aug. 15-16, 2023. They also lost to the Boston Red Sox 2-0 on Sunday.
