Aaron Judge isn’t the only one putting pressure on the Yankee lineup lately.

The team has used two of its recent first-round picks to get younger over the past two seasons and Anthony Volpe has emerged as a solid everyday shortstop even if his offense has been inconsistent.

And Austin Wells took over for Jose Trevino as starting catcher through the second half of 2024.

The moves have worked out so well that the Yankees are in their first World Series since 2009, but both are off to a terrible start in a series against the Dodgers that has seen the Yankees drop the first two games and return to The Bronx on look to turn the series around in Game 3 on Monday night.

The two players, who came through the minor league system together, settled into the lineup with the bases loaded and the Yankees down two runs in the top of the ninth inning of Saturday’s loss to the Dodgers in Game 2 in the Dodger. Stadium.

It didn’t go well.

Volpe smelled a 2-2 sweeper from right-hander Blake Treinen that landed well outside the strike zone for the second out of the inning.

The Dodgers then went to left-handed Alex Vesia to face the left-swinging Wells, and Aaron Boone didn’t even let Wells come to the plate.

Instead, Trevino was used as a pinch hitter against the left-hander, even though the veteran catcher had only one hit in the postseason.

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He lined a drive to center on the first pitch he saw to end the game.

It was part of what was a tough first two games of the Series for the players who were drafted a year apart, with Volpe going 30th overall in 2019 and Wells 28th overall in ’20.

After an impressive first two rounds of the postseason, in which Volpe took some of his best at-bats of the year, showed great patience at the plate and consistently hit the ball hard, he is hitless in eight at-bats against the Dodgers with four strikes. strikeouts.

In fact, the only time Volpe reached base in his past eleven at-bats was an intentional walk in the top of the sixth inning of Game 1 against left-hander Anthony Banda.

Wells’ slump dates back to his last fourteen games of the regular season, when the catcher went 3-for-45 with a dozen strikeouts.

“Wells keeps hitting the same plate over and over again,” said one AL scout. “It’s not like Volpe, where the Dodgers did a good job on him and maybe he can make an adjustment. With Wells, it seems like he’s doing it to himself.”

Overall, Volpe has a slugging percentage of .270 this postseason, while Wells is at .171.

And if the Yankees want to make a comeback, they’ll need more than just Judge to get going.