When someone mentions the phrase “pitchers duel,” Nathan Eovaldi and R.A. Dickey aren’t the names that first come to mind. But through the first six innings on Tuesday night, the two starters combined for just two runs allowed. Dickey, a former Cy Young Award winner with the New York Mets, went gave up the two […]
Day: May 24, 2016
Series Preview: Yankees-Blue Jays
Riding high following a four-game sweep of Oakland, the New York Yankees return home for a series against Toronto with a chance to eclipse the .500 mark for the first time since April 13th. Despite facing a trio of one-win pitchers and a not-so-sunny version of Sonny Gray, New York’s offense still displayed promise, posting four […]
Throwing hard isn’t enough for Yankees
The fastball is the basic building block upon which all pitching is built. If you were to describe the act of pitching to an alien, or someone from Norway, you would probably say something to the effect of “the attempt to throw a ball hard into an imaginary box of sorts past someone trying to […]