With a win on Monday over the Atlanta Braves, the New York Yankees are currently enjoying a 10-game winning streak that has propelled them into first place in the American League East and the best record in the American League. During this latest stretch, the Bombers' rotation has been smoking hot. New York's starters are a combined 12-1 in June and are pitching to a 1.84 ERA. It's safe to say they are sporting the best rotation in baseball at the moment. Let's take a look at how the Yankees got ...
On Monday, the announcement came that Roger Clemens was found not guilty on all six counts of perjury charges.Clemens has been under investigation and on trial for lying to the government back in February 2008 about taking performance-enhancing drugs during his career.The government based a lot of their case on Clemens' former trainer Brian McNamee, who had testified that he gave Clemens steroids and HGH from 1998-2001. Clemens' team of lawyers worked very hard to discredit McNamee as a witness because "he kept changing his story."Now that Clemens has been ...
For almost five years, the federal government had been after Roger Clemens.On Monday, their pursuit of the former New York Yankees star pitcher came to an end as a jury found Clemens not guilty on all six counts of perjury charges.It all started back in December of 2007 when Clemens was cited as one of the key names mentioned on the Mitchell Report, a list of baseball players who had taken performance-enhancing drugs.Clemens has denied ever taking anything, whether it be steroids or human growth hormone (HGH), and the federal ...
The New York Yankees' starting rotation wasn't supposed to be this good. In fact, it looked for a time like the Bombers' rotation was going to be the team's undoing in the long run.So much for that. The Yanks have won 13 of 15 and nine in a row in the month of June, and that has everything to do with their starting rotation. So far this month, Yankees starters have an 11-1 record and a 1.97 ERA, both of which are tops in Major League Baseball.Heck, with starting pitching like this, ...
In football, the saying is that the best defense is a good offense.In baseball, the best bullpen might be a good starting rotation.So if Yankee fans want to credit anyone for the team's recent success and rise to first place in the American League East, then they should tip their caps to their team's starting pitchers and the National League East.The Yankees began this week on a nine-game winning streak after having swept three-game series against the Mets, Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals, giving them a 10-2 record in inter-league ...
Facing a lengthy perjury case brought on by the U.S. government, former MLB righty Roger Clemens was found not guilty of all charges Monday afternoon, USA Today reports.Clemens, who pitched for four clubs in his 24 year career, was on trial for six felony accounts of perjury, false statements, and obstruction of Congress. The charges stemmed from statements made in 2008, in which he denied use of performance-enhancing drugs in the wake of a Congressional report filed by former Senator George Mitchell.Trial testimony spanned eight weeks and featured over 40 ...
In an interleague series between two teams trending in opposite directions, the Atlanta Braves travel to the Bronx to take on the red-hot New York Yankees. The Braves have a slim lead over the New York Mets for second place in the National League East. They have lost six of their last seven games, including a three-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees last week. That three-game sweep pushed the Yankees' winning streak to six, before they went into Washington and picked apart the Nationals. This team is firing on all ...
With Brett Gardner out another three to four weeks, some people are wondering if he'll ever make it back at all. After playing just nine games, Gardner went on the DL and has experienced setbacks prolonging his stint on the DL.The New York Yankees miss Gardner's speed, athleticism, defense, and base running skills. He can get on base and create runs all thanks to his speed and know how around the bases. In the outfield, he can chase down fly balls that could've ended up turning into a double without ...
Everyone hates the New York Yankees.As famous columnist Mike Royko once said:"Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax." The Yankees are so evil that in the play Damn Yankees the main character sells his soul to the devil to help beat them.You don't get to be called the "Evil Empire" without doing something wrong. After all, the Yankees' high-spending, relentless ways have spawned a hate that is unmatched in professional sports. The Yanks do have 27 World Series titles, and possess names such as ...
The key to this weekend's series for the Yankees against the Nationals was pitching.In the three games played in Washington, the Yankees got that from their three starters in Phil Hughes, Andy Pettitte and Ivan Nova.On Sunday, the Yankees got another dominant pitching performance from Nova, as the 25-year-old hurled 7.2 innings, allowing one run on seven hits, walked one and struck out four.Nova also picked up his ninth win of the season and improved his record to 9-2 and lowered his ERA to 4.32.The only mistake Nova made against ...