The New York Yankees made the wrong type of franchise history on Wednesday night as part of an 11-1 blowout loss against the Detroit Tigers ( box score ). For the first time in the Yankees' 123-year history, their bullpen surrendered nine or more runs in consecutive games.

Five Yankees relievers combined to allow nine runs on 11 hits and no walks across three innings of work on Wednesday. That group included outfielder Austin Slater , who, amusingly, was the only Yankees reliever to record a scoreless appearance. Mark Leiter Jr., Camilo Doval , Tim Hill , and Luke Weaver were the guilty parties, with both Doval and Weaver yielding three runs apiece.

Leiter had also been involved in Tuesday's nightmare, when he and Fernando Cruz combined to allow nine runs without record

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