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Nick Swisher of New York Yankees Finding Fenway Park a »
Right fielder turned fill-in first baseman Nick Swisher is showing signs of breaking out of a September slump that saw him go 0-for-Baltimore-and-Tampa Bay to begin the current 10-game road trip through the American League East.Swisher was 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles Wednesday night as the New York Yankees kept pace with the Baltimore Orioles [...]
New York Yankees: 6 Changes Joe Girardi Must Make to »
While it was their hated rivals to the north—the Boston Red Sox—who set the standard for late-season collapses by blowing a nine-game lead and missing the playoffs in 2011, the New York Yankees have seen a 10-game lead in mid-July disappear.They head into Wednesday night’s game with the Red Sox at Fenway Park tied with the [...]
Curtis Granderson, Joba Chamberlain Great as New York »
With a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday, for the third time in a week, the Baltimore Orioles pulled even with the Yankees in the American League East standings. On Sunday, for the third time in a week, the Yankees reclaimed sole possession of first place in the AL East, this time by thumping the Orioles, 13-3, to close out their [...]
Curtis Granderson Must Sit If New York Yankees Are to »
Something that may be lost in the controversial ending to Saturday night’s 5-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles is the continued slide of All-Star center fielder Curtis Granderson. Granderson entered Saturday’s game as a pinch-hitter for Andruw Jones in the sixth inning and struck out against Baltimore reliever Darren O’Day with the [...]
Ranking the New York Yankees in Late-Season »
September in a pennant race is traditionally a time when the best players on a team step up with their best performances. So when considering how to rank the players most likely to be on a postseason roster, should the New York Yankees hang on and hold off the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays for the American League East crown or, at the very [...]
Pennant Race: New York Yankees Face 25-Game Sprint to »
If you’ve ever driven a car, then you’ve seen this phrase written on the passenger-side mirror: “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” When the New York Yankees forged a 10-game lead in the American League East on July 18, the Baltimore Orioles were in second place. The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays were tied [...]
New York Yankees: Offense, Bullpen at Forefront of »
After a 4-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Labor Day afternoon, the New York Yankees are now just 19-24 since taking a 10-game lead over the Baltimore Orioles and a 10½-game edge over the Rays on July 18. Since then, Baltimore is 28-15 and Tampa Bay 27-16 and the Yankee lead in the American League East has shrunk to a single game over the [...]
AL Pennant Race: Maybe Not Panic Time Yet for New York »
The good news for New York Yankees’ fans is that the Bronx Bombers came out of this weekend’s key series with the Baltimore Orioles still clinging to a two-game lead in the AL East. The bad news, or at least the more sobering news, is that the Yankees are one J.J. Hardy fielding gaffe on Saturday away from being in a flat-footed tie [...]
AL Playoff Race: 9 Best-Case Scenarios for the New »
As the American League East race has tightened up as we approach Sept. 1, it’s worth it to don the rose-colored glasses and peer into what September holds for the New York Yankees. At least what the best-case scenarios would be for the Yankees, anyway. Since September is the ninth month on the Gregorian calendar and baseball has a strong [...]
New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman Should Have Steered »
If there is a sore spot among New York Yankees fans as it relates to the glory years at the end of the 20th century, it is that so many of the players from those World Series teams of 1996 and 1998-2000 were linked to performance-enhancing drugs, either in the Mitchell Report (per ESPN) or subsequent revelations or investigations. So perhaps it [...]