Tigers had the funniest Yankees history ever committed against them

It typically isn't a good thing when a position player is on the mound for any team in Major League Baseball. There are times when a team is winning so big that they decide to bring in a position player.

For the New York Yankees over the past few days, that obviously wasn’t the case. On Wednesday night, the Yankees decided to bring in Austin Slater, an outfielder, to pitch.

It made sense, as the Yankees don't want to burn pitching, but obviously, this is less than ideal considering how they played against Detroit. 

Yankees outfielder makes team history

Nonetheless, while frustrating in multiple ways, Slater made some hilarious Yankees history in his outing. According to MLB.com's Manny Randhawa, Slater threw a 36.4 mph pitch, which was the slowest pitch in Yankees’ Statcast history.

“Who says you have to throw hard? Not Austin Slater, that’s for sure. The Yankees outfielder took the mound in relief of Luke Weaver in the top of the ninth inning on Wednesday night with New York trailing the Tigers by 10 in their eventual 11-1 defeat.

“Slater was effective, working around a Dillon Dingler single to get the final two outs of the frame. And he did it by unleashing … the slowest pitches delivered by a Yankee that Statcast has ever tracked (since 2015),” he wrote.

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If there's ever the type of history that teams don't typically want to make, it'd be one like this. For Slater, however, it was likely rather fun to get out there and just toss a couple of pitches over the heart of the plate. 

New York will have to hope that it doesn’t need him throughout the remainder of the season, hopefully taking care of business in games that matter like the ones it dropped to the Tigers.