Saturday’s game against the Oakland Athletics was a bitter pill to swallow for the Yankees. The Bronx Bombers were handed a 0-7 thrashing by the same team that was once dubbed homeless by Rangers broadcaster Dave Raymond. The performance ignited tensions on the field as well, as emotions spilled over. Yankees reliever Ian Hamilton later shed light on the heated moment involving A’s rookie Jacob Wilson.

The story began when the Yankees were down 0-4. After giving up a two-out single to Denzel Clarke, Hamilton walked Lawrence Butler. However, Wilson hit a comebacker next, prompting Hamilton to give him a long stare. And, the youngster stared back.

Per Hamilton, he was just frustrated with how he’d pitched that inning. And the stare and whatever he muttered as Wilson jogged to first weren’t meant to be personal.

“I was having a bad inning,” Hamilton said. “A little emotional and got the ball, and then looked in at him and then told him to run. … He wasn’t running out of the box. I was upset with the inning, and then that was that. Then he asked me what I said, and I just walked off.”

Wilson also acknowledged that there was no bad blood. “It’s baseball, and sometimes things get hot. It’s part of the game and no hard feelings,” he said. “As players, you get frustrated and no hard feelings, like I said. No big deal.”

Hamilton still had his fair share of moments in the disastrous night. Notably, after tossing the scoreless seventh, his ERA is now down to 3.77 for the season. He’s now put together 7 2/3 straight scoreless innings over his last six appearances, bringing that ERA down from 5.14! Commendable, isn’t it?

Wilson, on the other hand, hitting .340 this year and is just behind New York’s Aaron Judge, who is at .354.

While things ended well between Hamilton and Wilson, the Yankees’ issues only seem to be amplifying.

The Yankees’ offense is in the limelight again

The Yankees’ offense is in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Remember the start they had this year? Homers were flying in every game, and the Yankees’ offense was steamrolling the rivals. But here we are now, when they are just being a pale shadow of that.

“We haven’t had a lot of hits in the last two days. We haven’t been hitting the long ball, either,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after the second game against the Athletics.

If you are unaware, the Yankees, who were shut out only twice in their first 69 games, have now been held scoreless twice in their last 13! So yes, the offense has been dwindling. Moreover, the loss came against a team that had the second-worst ERA in the league (5.42) and second-highest opponent batting average (.267).

Yet, all that the Yankees bats managed was just three singles. They have only scored a total of three runs in the first two games of the series. But who to blame? Talk about the Yankees’ veteran cornerstone Aaron Judge.

He wasn’t at his best by any stretch, leaving two runners stranded in the third and another in the sixth. Moreover, in his last 15 games, Judge is batting just .182 with three homers and 24 strikeouts. Fans were hoping to see him break the .400 barrier. But Judge can’t be blamed alone. There’s Paul Goldschmidt. Over his last 30 games, he’s hitting just .198.

The entire Yankees offense lineup is heading south. The typical Yankees’ winning culture is nowhere in sight.