The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.The Yankees did something weird, and it forced me down the worst stats wormhole I’ve ever been through. Plus: How to get ejected before a game even starts, and Ken Rosenthal says what we’re all thinking … Tarik Skubal is going to be traded. I’m Levi Weaver — welcome to The Windup!Stark Signal: Yankees score 13 runs in one inningFrom their inception in 1903 — as the New York Highlanders — through 2004, the Yankees had scored 13 runs in an inning precisely zero times. Then, in 2005, they did it twice. Then never again … until yesterday.The way they did it was kind of a microcosm of that nothing-then-everything pattern: All of the Yankees’ runs in yesterday’s 13-8 win over the Athletics came in the third inning. It was a game that is destined for a Jayson Stark “Weird and Wild” column in the near future.
The Yankees finished the third inning with 11 hits, four walks and four stolen bases over 43 minutes and 75 pitches.
It wasn’t just scoring that was limited to the third. They also tallied zero hits in any other inning.
Outside the 18-hitter third inning, A’s pitchers held the Yankees to the minimum (24 batters).
