The New York Yankees offense is going to go as Jacoby Ellsbury does in 2015. He's a unique talent at the top of a lineup, but injuries are starting to pop back up for the 31-year-old center fielder, who is out for Sunday's game against the New York Mets with a hip injury.
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Ellsbury Out vs. Mets With Hip Injury
Sunday, April 26
MLB.com's Bryan Hoch reported that Ellsbury will miss Sunday's game against the Mets with a hip injury. Manager Joe Girardi "said that they're hopeful he can play tomorrow."
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The New York Yankees are currently locked in a 1-1 game with the Detroit Tigers on a chilly day at Comerica Park.
It’s the bottom of the seventh now, but the contest started out rather sloppy thanks to Brett Gardner and a fan who wanted to be as close as physically possible to the action at hand.
Gardner ran to field a popped-up foul ball over the left field line and ended up running into a wall of rawhide and suds. One fan stuck his glove up to field the ball, and the ...
After nearly 20 years of going with a single closer, the New York Yankees, of all teams, don't have one in 2015. At least, not officially.
What in the name of Mariano Rivera is going on?
That's right: Yankees manager Joe Girardi essentially has declined, on multiple occasions, to name a closer, even though the end of April is approaching and the team has played 15 games through Wednesday.
It might sound crazy to some, especially in the Bronx, where Rivera became not only a fan favorite but a legend while helping the ...
Bernie Williams hasn't played in a Major League Baseball game since 2006, but the 16-year veteran will make his retirement official by signing his papers at Yankee Stadium on Friday.
According to the Yankees' official Twitter feed, Williams' retirement will include a press conference with the media and a Monument Park plaque dedication:
As Jesse Spector of Sporting News jokingly noted on Twitter, Williams' retirement means that Carlos Beltran's spot with the Yankees is secure:
Williams spent his entire career playing for the Yankees. The 46-year-old won four championships (1996, 1998-2000) and was ...
New York Yankees starting pitcher CC Sabathia will be looking to earn his first win against the Detroit Tigers since 2013 and pick up his first victory in three starts this season when the teams square off at Comerica Park Monday night.
Sabathia (0-2, 5.68 ERA) hopes to lead the Yankees (6-6) to their fourth straight win as well but will have a tough task at hand facing the Tigers, who own an American League-best 10-2 record and are 4-1 favorites to win the pennant at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.
New York ...
We all knew the script. In his return from a season-long suspension, Alex Rodriguez was supposed to be over-the-hill dead weight in the middle of the New York Yankees' lineup in 2015.
Evidently, he must have lost his copy. All of a sudden, A-Rod is clobbering the ball all over the place and, in doing so, carrying an otherwise sluggish Yankees offense on his shoulders.
What happened Friday night at Tropicana Field is a microcosm of the whole affair. The soon-to-be 40-year-old Rodriguez led the Yankees to a 5-4 victory over the ...
The downtrodden possibility is completely realistic.
The New York Yankees, for so many years now, have mostly avoided it. Through all the aging, declining and pain, the organization has never punted on a big league season in recent memory by accepting their place within the American League East.
When tough times have come, it hit the phones to pry away midseason help. When the playoffs have been missed, it opened the vault and drowned the free-agent market in oceans of money.
Yankees spend big in the offseason after missing playoffs. • 2008-09: $441 million ...
The New York Yankees are always one of the most divisive teams in Major League Baseball. It's also true, though, that the 2015 season brings about one of their most divisive on-field products in recent memory.
As is true of any professional sports team, there's always a divide between what fans of that team feel their chances for success are and what fans of other teams feel. However, with the 2015 Yankees, it feels as though the predictions for this team range anywhere from a sub-.500 record to 90-plus wins.
With such ...
Jimmy Fallon is a Yankees fan.Sure, he grew up rooting for the New York Mets, because his dad worked for IBM and received tickets for games. He also made a rom-com about loving the Boston Red Sox and, outside the context of the film, likened the team's victory over the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series to "the U.S. hockey team beating the Russians in 1980."But Fallon is a Yankees fan, as noted by his hat and presence behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night. That beloved ...
If the New York Yankees want to return to the postseason in 2015, they're going to need Masahiro Tanaka to be the ace he was in 2014. That's pretty much non-negotiable.
Through one game, here's how that's going: not so good.
Tanaka drew the Yankees' Opening Day assignment against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday afternoon at Yankee Stadium and looked very little like the guy who posted a 2.77 ERA and 6.71 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 2014. In four innings, he allowed five runs (four earned) on two walks and five hits, ...