Welcome back to another season of Yankees baseball and welcome to BP Bronx’s new About Last Night series in which we will examine anything from a single at-bat or a big inning to an entire pitching performance depending on what we feel is the big story from the night before. The Yankees won their […]
Author: Stacey Gotsulias
Trying to solve the enigmatic Michael Pineda
Michael Pineda is a puzzle that his own coaches can’t solve. He has “good” stuff, but he is maddeningly inconsistent. Pineda has a couple of pitches in his repertoire that are great when they’re working for him, but the problem is that when they are off, they are really off. Pineda has been with the […]
Sanchez and Gregorius are seeing 20/20
Tuesday night was a good night for the Yankees. First and foremost, they staved off playoff elimination by beating the Red Sox 6-4 at the Stadium. Second, they guaranteed another season at .500 or above, their 24th in a row. Third, they hit three home runs—the most important a two-run, opposite field shot by Tyler Austin […]
Game 155 Recap: The Yankees are Clippard by the Jays
The Yankees lost again. The death spiral that began in Boston last weekend continued into this weekend. This time, the Yankees offense, which went 33 innings without scoring, finally scored a run in the seventh inning of Sunday afternoon’s game. Then, perhaps even more miraculously, they scored two in the ninth to take a 3-2 […]
Game 146 Recap: More Ninth Inning Problems
On Thursday night, the Yankees began an extremely important four-game series with the Red Sox in Fenway Park. And it looked pretty good for the Yanks who had a lead heading into the bottom of the ninth inning. Unfortunately, for the second day in a row, they lost a game in the ninth inning, but […]
Game 139: Tyler Walks Off This Way
Aren’t walk-off wins fun? Especially when a walk-off home run is hit by a member of the Yankees’ youth movement. Tonight’s hero was first baseman Tyler Austin who hit an opposite field home run with two outs in the ninth to win the game, 5-4. The rest of the game leading up to those ninth inning heroics […]
Castro was a Starlin in August
In the midst of all the rightly-deserved, and well-earned hoopla surrounding rookie Gary Sanchez in August, another young Yankees’ player had a good month: Starlin Castro. And while the world stopped what they were doing and watched Sanchez at bats in awe, Castro quietly batted .313/.333/.571 with eight home runs during the month of August […]
Ten years later: The five-game sweep at Fenway
“Five games. It’s hard to believe.” Those were the words Yankees principal owner George M. Steinbrenner uttered on Monday Aug. 21, 2006 after his New York Yankees traveled up to Fenway Park and swept the Boston Red Sox in a pivotal series. It was billed as a clash of titans in the days leading up […]
Game 114 Recap: T-minus one game
Alex Rodriguez presumably played at Fenway Park for the last time on Thursday night and while his performance was probably not up to his standards, he did contribute offensively to the Yankees’ 4-2 victory. Michael Pineda made his 23rd start of the season and had his usual issues with two out hits. It started right […]
Game 108 Recap: Nate Eovaldi and the inning of doom
Thursday’s finale to the Subway series was definitely not as exciting as Wednesday night’s game, at least not for the Yankees. There were no brushback pitches, no relief pitchers jawing at guys on second base, and no trading runs back and forth between the two teams, but there was something that happened on Thursday that […]