In 2012, the New York Yankees have flat-out kicked the Boston Red Sox's rear-ends. The Yankees finished up their four-game series at Fenway Park with a 7-3 Sunday Night Baseball beating on ESPN.What was supposed to be a featured pitching matchup between Ivan Nova and Jon Lester turned out to be one pitcher dominating against the other. The Yankees got to Lester early, as Mark Teixeira ripped an RBI double past third baseman Mauro Gomez to put the Bombers up 1-0.Nick Swisher hit a fielder's choice to third, but Gomez ...
Welcome to the live blog for tonight's series finale between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.This is not only the final game of this series at Fenway Park but it's also the last game before the All-Star break this week.In the first game on Friday night, the Yankees got the upper hand and won a slug-fest with the Red Sox, coming back to win 10-8 behind Mark Teixeira's two-run go-ahead triple in the seventh inning.On Saturday, the two teams played a day-night double-header. In the first game, which ...
Legendary New York Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson was never afraid of controversy throughout his long career, but the trouble he is causing now is just as interesting.The controversy stems from an article published by Sports Illustrated concerning Jackson's comments about current Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Jackson told the magazine about his good friend Rodriguez and how he feels his current and potential records are tainted: Al’s a very good friend. But I think there are real questions about his numbers. As much as I like him, what he admitted about his (performance-enhancing ...
When Mariano Rivera went down with a torn ACL, every Yankees fan (including myself) thought they were doomed. Many assumed David Robertson would take over the closer role, considering his dominance as the eighth-inning setup guy. When he then went down with an injury himself, the Yankees had to find another stop-gap at the end of the game. Luckily, they happened to have a 12-million-dollar, seventh-inning guy named Rafael Soriano. Fans were not so thrilled at first when Soriano took over the closer role. His first season in pinstripes wasn't a great ...
It appears even Reggie Jackson's uncensored mouth has to answer to someone as the New York Yankees' legend was forced to apologize following comments he made about Alex Rodriguez in an interview with Phil Taylor of Sports Illustrated."Al's a very good friend," Jackson said. "But I think there are real questions about his numbers. As much as I like him, what he admitted about his usage does cloud some of his records."According to Andrew Marchand of ESPNNewYork.com, Jackson has been on the mend with Yankees ...
The New York Yankees (51-33) and Boston Red Sox (43-42) are scheduled to play the last baseball game before the All-Star break, as the two teams close out a four-game American League East series at Fenway Park on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.The Yankees were sent out as plus-108 road underdogs in the MLB betting odds (courtesy of SBR Forum), while the total stands at 10, but faces downward pressure in the market.New York has won two of the first three games in this series, with the two teams splitting a ...
As if the fireworks display of offense wasn't enough during Friday's 10-8 New York Yankees win over the Boston Red Sox, first baseman Mark Teixeira added a little extra fuel to the fire after the contest.Teixeira was responsible for the two-run, game-winning triple in the top of the seventh, a hit that came off of a former teammate of his, Vicente Padilla.Teixeira had some things to say about Padilla in a postgame interview. Via Mark Feinsand of The New York Daily News:
“The guy throws at people,” said Teixeira. “Fact of ...
Injuries have destroyed the Yankees pitching staff. So far this season the Yankees have lost Michael Pineda and Mariano Rivera for the year, David Robertson for a month, Andy Pettitte for at least two months and CC Sabathia for two weeks. Almost any team that loses three-fifths of its starting rotation, along with its closer and set-up guy, would go into free fall.Somehow the Yankees have withstood all of this and are in first place in the American League East.Many reports have surfaced around the Yankees looking to add a starter. ...
Last year's AL starting catcher for the All-Star Game was Alex Avila.Russell Martin won the role of AL's reserve backstop, purely on fan voting; Tigers catcher Alex Avila topped him in nearly every offensive category. Perhaps the fact that Martin made the team at all is another argument in favor of changing the method of All-Star selection.Perhaps it is a sign of the Yankees' true weakness:Jorge Posada is gone. He was gone well into the last season of his career, but the Yankees—in a typical display of loyalty—let him ride ...
No lead is ever safe in Fenway Park when the Yankees and Red Sox play.They have two high-scoring offenses, and when you add that element in a ballpark that can see a lot of runs put on the board, it makes for some entertaining baseball.The first game of the four-game series between the Yankees and Red Sox was no different on Friday night at Yawkey Way in Boston.Hiroki Kuroda was on the mound for the Yankees while Josh Beckett was on the hill for the Red Sox.The Yankees wasted no ...