Author: Nicolas Stellini

The Baltimore Orioles defeated the New York Yankees, 5-2, on Sunday afternoon. Kevin Gausman was once again brilliant against New York, Zach Britton put the finishing touches on a perfect season as closer, and the Birds let the champagne fly in the locker room, as the win clinched a spot for them in the Wild […]

It’s a scene out of every bad Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Our hero is lost in the desert with seemingly no escape, on the brink of dying of thirst. Then, off in the distance, hope slowly comes into focus. An oasis is there, just below the horizon. If our hero can just reach the isolated grove of […]

The Yankees had won seven straight games entering Sunday’s contest with the Rays. Seven games of sheer madness had vaulted them into contention not only for a Wild Card, but for the division lead. The seemingly impossible looks to be in reach for a team that essentially called it quits on August 1st. That quest […]

To win a baseball game, a team has to score runs. This is not new information, nor is it revelatory in any way. It is basic logic. Baseball, unlike soccer, cannot end in a tie unless Bud Selig is attending the All-Star Game. The Yankees are not dumb. They know this. They are, after all, […]

On a day that was all about Alex Rodriguez’s impending departure from the team, the Yankees still had to play baseball. They did just that, and won, too. New York defeated Cleveland 3-1 behind a strong six-inning, one-run, eight-strikeout effort from Masahiro Tanaka. The Yankees’ ace stymied Cleveland batters for his entire outing with a […]

The Rays were 39-61 when the Yankees rolled into town. They are now 42-61. The Yankees have been swept by the lowly Rays, the final blow coming in a 5-3 win Sunday, and New York’s season was swept away too. While the Yankees did play a game on Sunday, and while they were in fact swept by […]

So as you may have heard, the Yankees dealt Andrew Miller to Cleveland on Sunday morning. Kenny Ducey’s got the details here. With both Miller and Aroldis Chapman gone, Dellin Betances will now step into the closer role. Because he was the lone remaining truly-reliable reliever in the bullpen, the Yankees subsequently announced they had […]

The Yankees are nothing if not a contradiction of themselves. There is so much wrong with the team, yet there is also so much that is right, and then there are times where even more shines through. Nathan Eovaldi has been maddeningly inconsistent this season. He oscillates between brilliance and fiery inferno, sometimes in the […]

The nominal second half of the season began with two bad losses to the Red Sox. A sweep would have not only been a crushing blow from a simple wins and losses standpoint, but from a morale one as well. With the team teetering on the precipice of the abyss, a third consecutive loss would […]