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. With Wild Card highs now nigh […]
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The Loss That Was Meant to Be
Following Friday night’s loss, Joe Girardi received a great deal of criticism for choosing not to review a Lonnie Chisenhall hit-by-pitch (chronicled in-depth here by Andrew Gargano), which led to a Francisco Lindor grand slam, which led to a Jay Bruce game-tying homer, which led to extra innings, which led to a Yan Gomes walk-off […]
The Girardi Incident
The Stage CC Sabathia had retired 12 of the last 13 men he faced. It was an impressive rebound for the 37-year-old veteran after an inauspicious start saw him allow three runs on three hits, two walks and a hit-by-pitch through the first two innings of Friday night’s ALDS Game 2. The Yankee bats came […]
About Last Night: 4K
Thursday night’s game was bad all around but it was especially for Aaron Judge who struck out four times against Indians pitching. Three times against starter Trevor Bauer and once against close Cody Allen. Here’s strikeout number one. Bauer threw Judge a mix of fastballs and curveballs and finished him off with a curve that […]
ALDS Preview: Time For Some Heavy Lifting
On August 4th, the Yankees tallied seven hits off of Trevor Bauer in a game they lost, 7-2. On August 30th, Bauer allowed nine baserunners (four hits, four walks, one hit-by-pitch), but only yielded one run over six innings as he handed the Yankees yet another loss. In 13 innings against the Indians’ Game 1 […]
About Last Night: What a relief!
Oh no! Oh my God! Ow. Gary’s okay! Yankees win! Photo Credit(s): Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Winners and Losers from the AL Wild Card Game
Winners: The Yankees Losers: The Twins For even more in-depth analysis, stay tuned to BP Bronx throughout this postseason run. Photo Credit: Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports
Let’s Get Wild
162 games ago, you would have laughed. The New York Yankees (91-71) and Minnesota Twins (85-77) will play in the American League Wild Card Game on Tuesday. The winner will face the Cleveland Indians in the Division Series. The Yankees were supposedly in the midst of a rebuild, and so were the Twins. But both […]
Monday Sonnet: The Eye of the Storm
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. With a flicker of hope to […]
Evolution, Cortisone, and Aaron Judge’s Shoulder
Aaron Judge’s season thus far resembles a graph many of you embrace as mathematically inclined baseball nuts, the rest running away, scorning the advance of statistics in this great game. Our visual model is the cosine wave. Starting in the positives from square one, it dips below zero into the abyss, only to remerge and reach the […]