Yankees Two-Day Results At Coors Puts Them In “Select” Company
Posted by Steve Lombardi on June 21, 2007
The Yankees, in the last two days, have lost 2 games in a row at Coors Field - where New York scored just one run in both losses.
Using the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index Team Batting Streak Finder, and setting it for “Longest Streak with L=1, R=1 From 1957 to 2007, Against COL, On the Road” shows this has only happened once before: When the Diamondbacks lost both games of a double-header in Colorado on September 23, 2004.
So, other than the Yankees now, no team has ever lost two games in a row played over two days, playing the Rockies on the road, where they scored exactly one run in each loss.
Now, last year, Oakland was shutout at Coors - two games in a row - from June 19th-20th. And, in 2002, the Pirates were shoutout while visiting the Rockies - two times in a row - on April 30th-May 1st.
So, you have to include them here too - in terms of having their bats go south for two games in a row while playing in Colorado.
Therefore, with their poor results over the past two days, the Yankees joined just three other teams to score that poorly for two games in a row while playing the Rockies at their home park.
How does that happen when you have Jeter, Abreu, A-Rod, Matsui, Posada and Cano on your team? Go figure.