The surging New York Yankees aimed to pick up their sixth victory in a row Friday night in their second of four against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays. After Thursday’s dramatic victory, there weren’t many theatrical elements to the Friday night showing in The Bronx. Instead, the Yankees poured it on and extended their win […]
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What to make of Aaron Judge’s recent struggles
It is no secret that Aaron Judge is struggling. He is currently slashing .178/.247/.329 through 23 games and has struck out a remarkable 37 times over that span. Gary Sanchez’s record-breaking start allowed Judge’s struggles to go relatively unnoticed. However, with Sanchez coming back down to earth, the right fielder’s slump has become a greater issue. Some fans […]
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 […]
The Yankees middle infield is going full Rougned Odor
We are at a moment when the New York Yankees franchise is overflowing with reasons to be optimistic about the future. The team currently possesses probably the best farm system in baseball, a mountain of mega contracts are about to come off the books and they employ a man by the name of Gary Sanchez […]
Game Recap 138: [Insert broom emoji]
On March 30th, I drafted an article about a pitcher named Bryan Mitchell. He was having a dominant Spring Training after a rough 2015, punctuated by a disabled list stint after being struck by a comebacker in the face, and was on his way to having a prominent role in the Yankees bullpen or rotation. […]
Game 137 Recap: Feeling Blue, Jays?
What a wild ride. Tuesday’s game between Toronto and New York moved at a brisk pace for the first seven or so innings, with the teams keeping it within one run. But the ninth inning proved for quite a show. After the Yankees took a 7-4 lead in the bottom of the eighth, Dellin Betances […]
Game 136 Recap: Staying alive
Labor Day marks the unofficial start to pennant-race season, and the surprisingly still-in-contention Yankees got the homestretch started off on the right foot. After dropping two out of three in Baltimore over the weekend, the team returned home and dispatched of the first-place Blue Jays 5-3 on Monday afternoon. Jacoby Ellsbury was the story early […]
Game 135 Recap: The bats are back in town
After being held scoreless by Baltimore in three straight meetings, the Yankee bats rose from the grave, breaking out for three runs in the first in a 5-2 victory. It wasn’t Gary Sanchez, Starlin Castro or even Aaron Judge doing the damage; Chase Headley and Austin Romine drove in four of the five runs. The Yankees needed runs in a […]
Game 134 Recap: Tick Tock
Orioles 2, Yankees 0 The season is not over. The season is not over. Why does it feel like the season is over? Overall I would consider myself an optimist in life. However, when it comes to sports the pessimism in me comes out. I try to look at the season with an objective eye, […]
Game 133 recap: A bad time for a bad loss
Left for dead at the trade deadline, the New York Yankees walked into the month of September only 2.5 games out of the second Wild Card spot in the American League. An improbable month of August in which the Yankee bats came alive and were resurged by their youth brought them to this position, and they […]