“Gritty” was the way radio play-by-play announcer John Sterling described the Yankees’ 8-4 win against the Red Sox on Wednesday and, while grit can sometimes be a dangerous word to use in baseball, it seems like the perfect way to describe a wild rollercoaster of a night. Yankees starters have had some struggle filling up innings […]
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A brief taste of the Gary Sanchez experience
Since December 2 1992, Gary Sanchez has been, absolutely, 100 percent, a real person. There is documentation to support this claim and very few would rise to argue the counter point. However, for New York Yankees fans he’s just now making the transition from abstract concept to concrete object. Most fans don’t watch a great […]
Game 112 Recap: .500 Days of Summer
Yankees-Red Sox is a historic rivalry but has lost some of its luster over the past few seasons as one, or both, teams have struggled. This year, New York is the lesser team, hovering around .500 for most of the season and selling off their best pieces at the deadline. Meanwhile, the Red Sox have […]
Life without Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez recently said that he would be “at peace” with whatever the organization decided to do with him in the future. That future has been made clear. The Yankees and Rodriguez announced on Sunday morning that the slugger will be released following Friday’s game against Tampa Bay, and will stay with the team as […]
Game 111 Recap: Terrific Tanaka Terrorizes Tribe
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 […]
Game 110 Recap: Back to .500
The Indians had been in a bit of a slump since Monday’s trade deadline, dropping five of their last six games and surrendering a staggering 10+ runs in each of the losses. The Yankees were able to capitalize on the Tribe’s recent struggles in the first game of their series on Friday, and early in […]
Game 109 recap: The force was strong with this one
On Star Wars night in The Bronx, The Evil Empire played host to the inbound Cleveland Indians who were greeted rather unceremoniously despite touting a lofty record and standing in the AL Central. The Yankees bopped them around seemingly from start to finish and never once relinquished the lead in the ballgame. The scoring started on […]
Reports: Mark Teixeira will retire at season’s end
Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is expected to announce his retirement later today, as reported by Buster Onley earlier this morning. Mark Teixeira expected to announce his retirement later today, at 36, effective at the end of the season. — Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) August 5, 2016 Teixeira, 36, has struggled in the 77 games he’s […]
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 […]
Game 107 Recap: Fireworks in the Bronx
The Yankees must have gotten pretty bored by Tuesday night’s dreary loss, because they turned it around with one of the more…interesting games of the season in Wednesday’s 9-5 win. The game was weird from the start, when Yankees’ starter Chad Green begun the game as follows: Home run Single Single Walk Single Some how, […]