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New York Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt (36) walks off the field during the fourth inning of a … More baseball game against the Athletics, Saturday, June 28, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. In the context of a daily sport like the 162-game marathon the New York Yankees and 29 other teams put themselves through every year, two weeks ago can feel like an eternity ago. Especially when a team is enduring one of those everything that can go wrong is going wrong stretches like the Yankees, who once held a seven-game lead atop the AL East and seemed like a decent favorite to return to the World Series. The latest run of bad news occurred when the Yankees said Clarke Schmidt was likely headed for Tommy John surgery. They made the ominous announcement two days after he exited after 55 pitches in three innings in Toronto due to tightness in his forearm, which is an injury that often gets your radar up thinking about the possibility of tightness leading to surgery. The announcement was made two weeks after Schmidt threw 103 pitches in seven hitless innings against the Baltimore Orioles. Schmidt said at the time he understood why the Yankees lifted him and also confidently said he would have finished the no-hitter off if given a chance to throw beyond the seventh. Schmidt’s flirtation with a no-hitter also prompted manager Aaron Boone to say the 2017 first-round pick was “underrated”. At the time, it was hard to argue since Schmidt was providing quality outing after quality outing and amid throwing 28 2/3 scoreless innings. Now, Schmidt is likely facing a second surgery to fix an ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, the same injury Gerrit Cole is rehabbing from…

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