The seemingly impossible happened on Wednesday night in the Bronx.
The Yankees lost a game to the Minnesota Twins.
Wednesday’s 4-1 defeat marked a rare blip in the Yankees’ two-plus decades of head-to-head dominance. It snapped the Yankees’ nine-game winning streak over Minnesota and dropped their head-to-head record against the Twins to 125-45 since 2002.
After rain delayed the start of the game by an hour and 52 minutes, Yankees rookie Cam Schlittler hurled five strong innings.
But the Twins pulled ahead as soon as he left the game to begin the sixth.
The score was tied, 1-1, when reliever Yerry De los Santos replaced Schlittler, who had thrown 86 pitches.
Anthony Volpe nearly robbed Byron Buxton of a leadoff single by gloving a hotshot to shortstop, but first baseman Ben Rice fa