Author: Kenny Ducey

Sometimes one inning can make or break a game. Once again, Michael Pineda’s disastrous start to the game on Wednesday wound up being the Yankees’ undoing in a 7-3 loss. After allowing four runners to cross, Pineda now owns a 15.43 ERA in the first inning of his seven starts this season, and he knows it. […]

Through the dark clouds of doubt that have steadily moved toward the sky over Yankee Stadium, a ray of promise peek through this weekend in a series win over the Red Sox For 52 hours, it appeared the Yankees were back out of their coma. For the last 20, the outlook has to returned to a bleak state. […]

For one night, the new Stadium almost felt like the old one. David Ortiz came charging out of the dugout at umpire Ron Kulpa after he was tossed from a 3-2 loss for losing his composure over a pair of controversial strike calls, nearly making contact with him behind home plate. Yankees closer Andrew Miller painted […]

Uneasiness turned into jubilation as Aaron Hicks’s solo blast in the eighth inning, out of nowhere, lifted the Yankees to a much-needed 3-2 victory in the opening game of their three-game set with Boston. It was an unusual night to say the least. Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury left the game in the first inning due […]

Just when there’s a ray of hope for the Yankees, misfortune finds them again. On the same day that CC Sabathia, a pleasant surprise, was placed on the DL, center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury left Friday’s game against the Red Sox with a tight right hip in the top of the first inning and was replaced in the outfield […]

It’s only been 15 games, but we already know what the Yankees are going to look like. They’ll have dry spells on offense for weeks at a time, and offensive explosions. The team will live and die with its power hitters. Well, Friday night was looking like one of those nights, until the tides turned and […]

The Yankees were lifted to a 4–3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday afternoon by Masahiro Tanaka and Alex Rodriguez, two players they desperately needed to play well. Tanaka out-dueled Hisashi Iwakuma, his former teammate in Japan, settling in after a rocky 24-pitch first inning and tossing seven innings of four-run ball. The Yankees ace hit […]

It’s no secret that Alex Rodriguez is slumping. The Yankees’ 40-year-old designated hitter entered Sunday with just three hits in 30 at-bats, and was dropped from third to sixth in the order as a result. “Sometimes moving a guy will help them relax a little bit,” manager Joe Girardi told reporters before the game. “Not that […]

In the Yankees’ newest “Yankees On Demand” short, catcher Brian McCann plays that annoyingly over-the-top extrovert that literally spends all day at the water cooler. He comments on the quality, uses an empty water jug as a dumbell, but most importantly, he doles out some ‘bro’ nicknames. Bro nicknames, ranked: Abroldis Chapman Starlin Casbro Luis […]