Mark Teixeira was 3-for-4 with two RBI, and seven New York pitchers led the Yankees to a 9-5 win over Detroit Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. With the win, New York remained in a first place tie in the AL East with Tampa Bay. Detroit dropped to 2-5 against the Yankees this season.
New York used a pair of home runs to open the scoring in the bottom of the first inning. With a runner on first and one out, Teixeira homered over the left field wall, his ...
As the CC Sabathia and the Yankees beat up on Justin Verlander and the Tigers Tuesday night, a very interesting battle occurred within the war. Austin Jackson, an outfielder who was developed in the Yankee system, hit a home run on the first pitch thrown by the Yankees ace, CC Sabathia.
The inning later, Curtis Granderson, who was traded for Jackson, made two sparkling catches. He later followed with a home run.
This series between the Yankees and Tigers presents us with one of the most compelling matchups possible in all of ...
At the beginning of the month Curtis Granderson was in the middle of one of the worst slumps of his career. Over the span of 11 games from July 30th through August 11th, Granderson was three-for-29 (.103 BA) with just one extra base hit.
At that point, Granderson went to Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long and, figuring things couldn’t get much worse, asked for his help. So K-Long and G-Unit went to work on his swing.
Thogether, they managed to accomplish three things: (1) Eliminate excess movement. (2) Shorten his swing. (3) Move his ...
Yogi vs Casey Quote War: Top That
This week we’re making the quote face-off battle between two of the funniest baseball managers of all time – Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel. Both were Yankees, one played for the other and it should be classic. We’ll try to keep it on baseball but you never know about Yogi, he sometimes wanders. We’ll see where this takes us but we’ll start off by asking Casey about the punctuality of his players: CS: I got players with bad ...
In an effort to protect the arm of Phil Hughes, who has never gone beyond 146 innings in any one season in his career, the Yankees are limiting him to about 175 innings this year. Many believed this meant that the Yankees would move him to the bullpen in October, as a way of keeping that innings total down. It turns out that isn’t the case.
Via Marc Carig of the Star-Ledger: "Also from Cashman: Hughes IP limit applies only to regular season. In playoffs, it’s 'all ...
Via The Star-Ledger:
"...general manager Brian Cashman said following the Yankees’ 6-2 victory over the Tigers on Tuesday that he believes the Yankees have enough to weather setbacks. As the deadline for waiver trades approaches at the end of the month, he doesn’t intend to make any moves.
"'I’m not anticipating any more moves,' Cashman said. 'I think this is the team we’ve got and we’re looking forward to playing the string out and seeing where it takes us. Obviously, everybody in this game would like ...
Via Chad Jennings of LoHud: The team's 29 signed draft picks alongside the number of the round they were drafted in.
1. Culver, Cito 2. Gumbs, Angelo 3. Segedin, Robert 4. Williams, Mason 5. Kahnle, Thomas 6. Encinas, Gabe 7. Anderson, Taylor 8. ...
Here are some bits for the day—
Alex Rodriguez left Monday’s game with a stiff calf that an MRI revealed to be a low-grade strain in his left calf. He’s day-to-day.
Andy Pettitte experienced another setback so he went in for an MRI that revealed that his injured groin wasn’t improving. The Yankees have shut him down for at least another week.
Nick Swisher was removed from the game the other night with a “sharp pain” in his forearm. He is also day-to-day.
Alfredo Aceves made another rehab ...
In his rookie season of 1952, Joe Black won 15 games for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He lost only four times, pitched to an ERA of 2.15, an ERA+ of 171, and helped the Dodgers win the pennant.Black was voted the National League's Rookie of the Year, and finished third in the MVP balloting.Black was Brooklyn's top relief pitcher. He appeared in 54 games in relief, but manager Charlie Dressen realized that he was short of starters for the upcoming World Series against New ...
The state of the New York Yankees has caused legitimate worry.
Latest news:
·Alex Rodriguez—out.
·Andy Pettitte—return pushed back to mid-September.
·Nick Swisher, AJ Burnett—playing hurt.
Now, the Bombers are tied atop the AL East, as the Tampa Bay Rays have played catch-up.
The Boston Red Sox are lurking not far behind and just activated 2B Dustin Pedroia from the DL. Pedroia is a powerhouse.
No one count out the Toronto Blue Jays either, this team is unbeatable when hot as Tampa, New York and Boston have recently experienced.
Even squeaking out a win on Tuesday ...