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Well, that wasn’t good. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . On to Game 7 Photo Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports

The New York Yankees are one win from the World Series. I will say it again. The New York Yankees are one win from the World Series. Before Wednesday night’s game, the question was whether or not the Yankees could get to Dallas Keuchel who shut them down in Game 1 of the series and […]

As Sonny Gray walked off the mound in Game 4, the FS1 cameras (cameras also brought to you by Camping World) caught the Yankees starter cracking a wry smile. Perhaps Joe Girardi had said something funny as he signalled for David Robertson to enter the game. Perhaps he was laughing at the strange circumstances that […]

Seems like we’ve been here before. It was just last week that the Yankees were trailing the Cleveland Indians two games to none in the ALDS. One week later, they’re trailing the Houston Astros two games to none in the ALCS. The difference? In two games played over in Houston, the powerful Yankees lineup could […]

In this series, I endeavor to capture the weekend’s action in the form of a sonnet. Shakespeare famously used this poetic form to express passionate feelings, often of love and lust, while I am using it to recap baseball games. Please don’t tell your high school English teacher.   A spirited comeback now in the […]

Hope never dies in a slugfest. When the Yankees immediately marched back to tie last week’s wild card game with three runs in the first inning off Ervin Santana, I breathed a sigh of relief. I knew that even if New York’s pitching continued to falter, they’d never be out of it. The bats were […]

Can I make a confession? I really wasn’t expecting much from the Yankees in Game One. I figured Dallas Keuchel would do his usual thing and dominate the Yankees’ lineup and that Houston would score just enough runs to win. Turns out, I was exactly right. But there was also a little part of me […]

(This edition of About Last Night is going to be a little different than previous editions. The title is obviously different but content will also be unusual. No charts or heat maps or videos, just my thoughts about what the Yankees have accomplished so far. ~Stacey) Before Wednesday’s game started I was calm. And that […]

It’s hard to make an analytics post based on four games of a playoff series. It’s even harder to draw conclusions from these since they are short series that have almost no correlation with what has been done throughout the regular season (i.e. the Los Angeles Dodgers sweeping the Arizona Diamondbacks.) But, given the final […]

Look, I’m not here to pile on Joe Girardi. My thoughts on him as a manager were succinctly put by Andrew Gargano in his article on the infamous non-challenge. Throughout his tenure in pinstripes, he’s been well above average in terms of win-loss results, and he’s been (seemingly) above average in terms of maintaining clubhouse […]