The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have met a total of 2,109 times during their storied rivalry that dates back to 1901. In spite of the heated nature of the rivalry, the Yankees showed their class in honoring a Red Sox icon on Monday night.When the news passed through the baseball world that former Red Sox shortstop and manager Johnny Pesky had passed away at the age of 92, many throughout baseball were saddened by the news, and not just baseball fans.The Yankees honored Pesky, who never represented ...
When the New York Yankees signed veteran pitcher Derek Lowe on Monday, several questions arose.Will he be a starter or reliever? How much of a contribution will he make to the team? Why would the team sign a pitcher with a 5.52 ERA?Well, all three of those questions may have been answered in Lowe's debut on Monday night against the Texas Rangers. Lowe entered the game in the sixth inning, relieving starting pitcher David Phelps. The 39-year-old went on to close out the game for the Yankees, recording a four-inning ...
A lot of people were skeptical when the New York Yankees picked up Derek Lowe on Saturday.He had been designated for assignment by the Cleveland Indians after he posted an 8-10 record with a 5.51 ERA in 21 starts this year.Because of CC Sabathia landing on the DL for a second time with an elbow injury, plus the early struggles of Joba Chamberlain returning off the DL, the Yankees needed pitching insurance, and they got Lowe for the veteran's minimum.The Indians are on the hook for $5 million of the ...
The injury bug has been chomping on the New York Yankees since before the season even began. And to show it means business, the injury bug has bitten CC Sabathia not once, but twice.Before this season, Sabathia was a man of steel. He had logged at least 230 innings in five straight seasons, and well over 2,000 between 2001 and 2011.Now that he's been derailed for a second time this season due to an elbow injury, it's doubtful that he'll even come close to hitting the 200-inning plateau.It's also fair ...
Way back in 1907, the first taxi cab ever was introduced to the soon to be congested streets of New York City. In 1926, the world welcomed one of the world’s most famous revolutionaries, when Fidel Castro was born. And in 1987, President Ronald Reagan woke up and took the heat for the embarrassing Iran-Contra scandal. So, what do these all have in common? Well, they all occurred on August 13th. Oh, almost forgot one delicate minutia, I was born on that day in ...
The two best teams in the American League are set to duke it out this week over four games, as the Texas Rangers come to the Bronx to battle the New York Yankees. New York and Texas have nearly identical records (the Yankees have one more loss), and are the preliminary favorites to represent the American League in the World Series. New York is 8-4 so far in August and is coming off a victory in the series opener last night. Their seven-game road trip through Detroit and Toronto saw them ...
November 4, 2009 – Up 7-3 after seven and one-third innings, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi tells journeyman reliever Dámaso Marté to take a seat. Though it’s only the eighth, Girardi calls for his closer, Mariano Rivera. Rivera retires five of the next seven hitters, and like that, the Yankees win their 27th World Series. Capturing the 2009 championship seemed to signal to the world that the Yankees would be back for good. But that wasn’t the case. For the past two seasons, it’s been not the Yankees, but ...
Nine hits, four earned runs and two strikeouts in 4.1 innings pitched. That's Joba Chamberlain's run down so far in 2012. Assuming he stays healthy, Chamberlain will be a two month regular season pitcher for the Bombers this year—with hope for one spectacular postseason month of October—as he looks to right the ship in his professional career.This is not the same man that seemed to emerge in the Bronx from the cornfields of Nebraska overnight in 2007 and delivered a scintillating two month stretch that electrified Yankee Stadium crowds and ...
August is the month for waiver trades where teams try to make some last-minute additions to bolster their team for the playoffs. The New York Yankees are one of those teams, and they really need to make some additions.They're still waiting on Andy Pettitte and Alex Rodriguez to return. Michael Pineda, Brett Gardner and Mariano Rivera are out for the season. CC Sabathia just joined them again by returning to the DL for 15 days.The Yankees will likely look to internal solutions for their problems, but that won't mean they ...
Phil Hughes threw a stinker against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday and concerns are beginning to mount about his effectiveness, as the home stretch of the MLB season is right around the corner. Hughes allowed seven runs on nine hits in four innings of work in Toronto for his second consecutive loss in what has been a string of three bad starts to begin the month of August. The 26-year-old won his first game of the month against the Baltimore Orioles, but it certainly didn't qualify as an impressive ...