The sky was falling in Yankeeland just a few days ago. The team had lost four straight games, two to the Rockies, and had sunk three games under .500 and into last place in the division. To many it felt like the beginning of the end. But then the team traveled to Minnesota, and as has […]
Author: Andrew Gargano
Game 55 Recap: Too close for comfort
The Yankees beat the Orioles Saturday night by a score of 8-6. Instead of a feel-good victory over a division rival though, Yankee fans were left shaking their heads at a late-inning bullpen debacle that proved to be nearly catastrophic. Early on it appeared that an awakening Yankee offense would be the story of the night. […]
Beltran’s power surge
The Yankee offense hasn’t been anything to write home about this season. They currently rank next-to-last in the American League in runs scored, only ahead of the lowly Minnesota Twins. By wRC+ they are actually worse, dead last in the AL and one of the most anemic offenses in the league. If there’s been a […]
Game 48 Recap: Bad Mike
As excruciating as April was for the Yankees, there’s no denying that the clouds have parted quite a bit this May. They’re playing better baseball. The bullpen has been as dominant as advertised. The offense that looked so defeated through the season’s first four weeks has come alive in the ones since. Even the starting […]
Game 42 Recap: We have a winning streak
It took the Yankees seven attempts to notch their first three-game winning streak of the 2016 season, a feat they finally accomplished Friday night in Oakland. They wasted no time in pushing that streak to four. The Yankees continued rolling Saturday afternoon, riding an excellent start by Masahiro Tanaka to a 5-1 victory over the […]
Game 33 Recap: The chase is over
Don’t look now, but the Yankees are heating up. After their worst start to the season in twenty years, the Yankees have quietly gone 5-2 over the past calendar week, and with a 7-3 win Thursday night, they’ve taken three of four from the world champion Royals in the process. The Yankee offense continued their […]
Game 31 Recap: The bats…they are alive
When the Royals come to town, you have certain expectations. You expect that they’re going to pepper you with hits. You expect that they’re going to play stellar defense. You expect that you’ll need to score your runs early, before they reach into their elite bullpen. You don’t expect a four-home run power display against […]
Who should close? A point/counterpoint
Aroldis Chapman made his return to the mound Monday night after completing his 30-game suspension for a domestic violence incident that occurred last fall. Chapman represents the final head of the Yankees’ bullpen Ghidorah, joining Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances to form a three-faced monster intended to tear through the back end of ballgames. One […]
Game 28 Recap: No bullpen, no problem
The Yankees have won back-to-back games. For most teams that isn’t something newsworthy enough to lead off an article. For the Yankees? It’s just the fourth time this season that they’ve managed the feat. After stealing a tense showdown with the Red Sox on Friday night, the Yanks won in much more comfortable fashion Saturday, […]
Game 22 Recap: It’s All Bad
The Yankees wrapped up their worst opening month in 25 years Saturday night after they dropped their fourth straight game, an 8-0 rout at the hands of the rival Red Sox. The team enters May six games under .500 at 8-14, the first time they’ve begun that poorly since 1991, and the first time the […]