ATLANTA — Clarke Schmidt has faced the powerhouse Rangers lineups twice.
He’s seen the potent Orioles 4 times.
Neither compares to the gauntlet he saw Monday night that’s the Braves.
“They were far and above beyond those teams I believe,” the Yankees’ right-hander from Acworth, Ga. said after his unhappy homecoming. “I don’t know if it’s them being hot straight away or simply a mixture of all of it, but they’ve really good approaches and really good bat-to-ball skills.
“They don’t give in they usually sort of feed off one another, too. Once the underside of the order gets going, the highest of it feeds off of it as well.”
He had the outing to prove it.
Schmidt, one in all the Yankees’ top starters the last three months, didn’t get out of the third inning Monday.
The Braves pounded him early and sometimes of their latest thumping of a Latest York team, this one an 11-3 trouncing of the Yankees after they piled up 40 runs on the Mets over the weekend in Queens.
Schmidt allowed a career-high eight earned runs on nine hits over 2 ¹/₃ innings, digging the Yankees an enormous early hole they couldn’t come near digging out of.
He gave up a solo homer to Austin Riley in the primary, and three more runs within the second with two outs.
All of it got here apart within the third, as his streak of holding the opposition to 3 earned runs or fewer ended at 14 consecutive starts.
After Eddie Rosario, Orlando Arcia and Nicky Lopez drove in runs with consecutive run-scoring hits within the third, his night was done at 68 pitches.
“He had some count leverage and just couldn’t put them away,” manager Aaron Boone said. “He’s probably a pitch away from getting out of [the second] inning unscathed, they usually just put together some good at-bats against him. After which I believe he really began to tire there within the third.”
Of the nine Braves’ hits, six got here with Schmidt ahead within the count.
That advantage did him no good against the game’s leader in runs scored.
If anything, his success early within the count gave him a false sense of confidence.
The Braves only got tougher the deeper the count went.
“Stuff felt great, execution felt good for essentially the most part. I believe there have been only a handful of two-strike pitches that I wish I had back,” Schmidt said. “Sometimes you get your ass beat slightly bit on the market. For lack of a greater term, that’s what happened tonight. You bought to tip your cap sometimes in baseball.”