Yankees sputter again in second straight loss to Mariners
The night before, the Yankees wrote off the loss as a fallout from the volatile sport. Seattle’s Tapper and Bloop found holes against Reid and Clay Holmes, who coughed up the game. In baseball, it was a deserved loss. On Tuesday, few events were coincidental. Clark Schmidt had a disappointed reaction after Dylan Moore’s two-run […]
Brian Cashman eager for Yankees’ Juan Soto contract talks
Hal Steinbrenner isn’t the only decision maker who wants Juan Soto to be a Yankee “for the rest of his career.” Asked about Steinbrenner’s recent comments about the team’s newest star, general manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday that “Hal just said the truth and the obvious.” “When we traded him, we were certainly hoping we […]
Marcus Stroman sparkles into 8th inning of Yankees’ loss to Mariners
Marcus Stroman is off to a great start as a Yankee. He proudly stepped off the mound in the eighth inning and received a standing ovation at the end of the game. He was nearly perfect. But that wasn’t enough. Yankees starter Marcus Stroman pitched 7 1/3 innings Monday night. Getty Images Stroman pitched 7 […]
Clay Holmes’ nightmare ninth snaps Yankees’ win streak at seven with loss to Mariners
As the lights dimmed and began to flash, Clay Holmes jogged toward a jubilant crowd that saw a fairly new closer entrance designed to liven up the stadium. Minutes later, jubilant fans booed the closer as he touched up for the first time this season. Holmes gave up four runs in a nightmarish nine innings […]
Clay Holmes’ new closer entrance aims to energize Yankees fans
The Yankees are a solid organization with a laid-back, easy-going closer. They added some plays to the closer’s entrance that seem to be good for both club and pitcher. For the first time in more than two years as the team’s closer, Clay Holmes is jogging onto the field to an element that aims to […]
Aaron Judge goes shallow for his seventh homer in 13 games for Yankees
Aaron Judge hits moonshots quite often. On Sunday, he turned to a wall scraper to stay red-hot. Judge hit his 13th home run of the year into the short porch of the right field seats to cap off the Yankees’ 7-2 victory over the White Sox. The two-run slice was a 339-foot shot that could […]
Jose Trevino, Jon Berti power Yankees to sweep over White Sox
Where things are going particularly well for most teams is that they are getting contributions from the bottom of the table. That’s increasingly becoming the norm for the Yankees. The strong batting lineup is starting to show its strength frequently from 1-9, and on Sunday, it was once again the bottom half that led the […]
Yankees’ rotation raises bar to historic level with dominant week
The Yankees’ rotation has been a strength all season, but it has kind of improved over the past week. After Luis Gil’s six-inning, 14-strikeout performance in Saturday’s 6-1 win over the White Sox, Yankees starting pitchers have allowed just two earned runs in 39 innings over the last six games, with an ERA. It is […]
Yankees’ gift from nowhere a big reason for their strong start
The reason the Yankees didn’t pursue Orlando Hernandez too hard in 1996 was because of his half-brother, Livan. It’s also forgotten that Hideki Irabu received a much bigger fanfare in 1997 than El Duque did a year later. After all, Hernandez had been banned from Cuban baseball because authorities feared he would defect like Liban. […]
Juan Soto hits two big blasts for first Yankees multi-homer game
Juan Soto returned to being Juan Soto. After a quiet eight games in which he went 4-for-31 at bat, the Yankees’ star outfielder made a big splash Saturday against the White Sox, hitting home runs in two of his first three at-bats. This was Soto’s first multi-home run game as a Yankee and the 18th […]