In a season where the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles were fit to be tied in head-to-head competition, it's a good thing there's a postseason set up to show who is the best team after all. Baltimore and New York split 18 games this season and were neck-and-neck in the standings through September.Starting tonight at Camden Yards, the Orioles and Yankees square off for what promises to be a thrilling best-of-five divisional series matchup between two of the most powerful teams in baseball.The clubs meet in the playoffs for ...
The New York Yankees won the American League East with 95 victories, but it was not easy. The upstart Baltimore Orioles surprised everyone by making the postseason for the first time since 1997. The team was led by none other than Buck Showalter, who in 1995 led the Bronx Bombers to their first postseason since 1981 and set the stage for the current Yankee dynasty.The Yankees barely held on to win the division title, forcing the Orioles to play a one-game wild-card playoff in Arlington, TX. Led by a solid ...
Few teams shared as exciting a season series as the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees did in 2012. Not only did they spend the majority of the season neck and neck atop the American League East, but they also proved to be two of the more complete teams in baseball. That...and they hit a hell of a lot of home runs. Nearly every one of their 18 games (both teams won nine times) was filled with drama, including two extra-inning affairs, four games decided by one-run, and another three ...
How fitting that the the battle between the two teams in the A.L. East would carry over into the postseason.The Baltimore Orioles disposed of the Texas Rangers 5-1 in the one-game wild card Friday night, which will allow them to advance to the American League Division Series and take on the New York Yankees.For most of 2012, the Yankees hung onto first place in the East and during one point in July, had a 10.5 game lead over Baltimore.But as the Yankees faded, the Orioles kept playing well, and eventually ...
One after another, the home runs kept flying out of Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night. Baseballs, flying through the sky, taking the form of celebratory fireworks for a New York Yankees team well on its way to another AL East division title and its 17th postseason berth in 18 years. Dominance.And you thought the Yankees weren't going to win the division.As Derek Jeter and Co. so fondly remind us, it's a long season. Over the course of 162 games, competitors come and go, but during this epic run that Jeter ...
Even with the floor of the Yankee clubhouse still sticky from copious amounts of sprayed champagne, the overall big picture has to be examined. Yes, the Yankees start their playoff life on Sunday, but it’s never too early to take a gander at the makeup of the team in 2013. With well-publicized attempts at lowering payroll by 2014 and aging core superstars, one has to wonder what exactly this team will look like next year. Even before the last pitch is thrown in 2012, there are concerns that the Bombers ...
More than any other league or sport, the regular season in Major League Baseball truly is a marathon. Every team has its ups and downs throughout the summer. The teams that have the most highs and fewest lows end up contending in the crapshoot known as October baseball.This year's version of the New York Yankees surely emphasizes this. They started the season 0-3 in St. Petersburg, Florida and were in last place as late as May 21st. The Bombers would soon surge, using a 10-game winning streak to catapult them ...
The path to the major leagues has been tumultuous for the New York Yankees’ top pitching prospect, Manny Banuelos. Signed as a 16-year-old out of Mexico in 2008, there were high expectations for the left-hander heading into the 2012 season after he nearly reached the major leagues last September. However, it’s doubtful that Banuelos’ long-awaited big league debut will happen any time before late-2014, as Brian Cashman announced earlier this week that the 21-year-old needs Tommy John surgery and will miss the entire 2013 season. The news comes on the ...
The most significant change to MLB's playoff format this year will be seen in the divisional series round.Both the AL and NL Division Series will be played in a 2-3 format with the higher seed playing the final three games of a series at home, rather than the traditional 2-2-1 format that's traditionally been employed. The change was made to eliminate a travel day between Games 4 and 5, which was necessary to accommodate the one-game wild-card playoff games.MLB has the option of returning to the 2-2-1 format next year, ...
On Sunday, the New York Yankees will begin their quest for their 28th World Series championship.They will be very interested in Friday night's one-game between the two Wild Card teams in the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers.Yu Darvish will take the mound for the defending American League champions while Joe Saunders will start for the Orioles.The winner of the game will host the Yankees for Game 1 of the American League Division Series.For Yankee fans, they have been debating whom they would rather play in the ALDS: Texas or Baltimore?In ...