It’s amazing how quickly a few big moments can erase weeks worth of anguish. On Friday, Jacoby Ellsbury stole home. On Saturday, Brett Gardner stole the show. Gardner helped carry the Yankees to their second consecutive win Saturday afternoon with a three-hit day that included a walk-off home run, downing Tampa 3-2. The victory helped […]
Author: Andrew Gargano
Game 10 Recap: So many ducks left on the pond
A lack of timely hitting doomed the Yankees as they lost their fourth game in a row on Saturday, a 3-2 contest to the Mariners. If those words feel eerily familiar to you, they should. Just a day after going 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position and stranding 12 men on base, the […]
Game 9 Recap: Every runner stranded
The Yankee faithful hoped that a return to the Bronx would mean a return to the team’s hot-hitting ways Friday night, but after a 7-1 loss to the Mariners, it was not to be. After scoring eight or more runs in three times in the season’s opening week, the Yankees have scored just eight total […]
Game 5 Recap: CC Returns, so do the bats
The Yankees hit parade returned on Saturday, as they rode a pair of home runs and a 3-run triple to an 8-4 victory over Detroit. It marked the third time in New York’s first five games that they’ve scored at least that many runs, a feat that hadn’t been accomplished by the team since 2003. […]
Pregame Notes: April 9 vs. Detroit
The Yankees will look to get back in the win column Saturday afternoon after dropping the first game of the Detroit series yesterday, 4-0. All eyes will be focused on CC Sabathia as the big lefty makes his 2016 debut. Sabathia posted a 4.73 ERA and 4.84 DRA in 167 1/3 innings last year, though […]
Mark Teixeira and the rare opposite field home run
Mark Teixeira hit a home run on Thursday. That in itself isn’t very notable, as he tends to do that quite often. There was something interesting about Teixeira’s homer though, and it wasn’t just that it broke a tie and gave the Yankees a three-run lead. • Game 3 Recap: Teixeira wins it in the seventh […]
A-Rod and the Quest for 762
The all-time home run record is not one that changes hands very often. For all intents and purposes, only three guys in baseball’s century-plus existence have ever laid claim to it. Babe Ruth held the record for nearly four decades, and Hank Aaron held it for another three before Barry Bonds passed him in 2007. Yet […]