The Yankees had a slim lead for most of yesterday’s game, but with two outs in the eighth inning CC Sabathia gave up the lead as the Mariners tied the game at two. But Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the frame to help the Yankees win 4-2 .
Here are some notes:
Sabathia is heating up. In his last six starts he has a 6-0 record with a 2.00 ERA and has not pitched fewer than seven innings in any start.
RHP Dustin Moseley has ...
If you knew absolutely nothing about baseball, never watched a single game, and just so happened to turn on ESPN one night when the Yankees are playing on Sunday Night Baseball , you might just think to yourself, “who is this young guy playing shortstop for the New York Yankees?”
At the start of the 2010 season, Derek Jeter was off to one of the best starts in his career, and although the numbers have gone down as the season has continued, he still continues to ...
In less than two weeks, the 81st MLB All Star game will be played. In recent years the voting has been a little one sided to a few teams players starting and only a few divisions being represented by starting rosters. This years voting so far, has been pretty much the same, especially in the American League where the Red Sox, Yankees, and Twins players dominate.
The Sports Dish will be attempting to make a great AL roster that places the most deserving and best players at their certain position, so far this ...
On Thursday afternoon, the New York Yankees avoided getting swept by the Seattle Mariners.
Yankees ace CC Sabathia led the team in the 4-2 win over the last place team in the AL West.
A-Rod sealed the deal with a two run A-Bomb. It was really in the bottom of the eighth inning and not the ninth, but who cares? A-Rod doesn't seem to think it mattered, and he was right.
Over the July 4th weekend (Happy Birthday America!) the Yankees face the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays are a team that ...
Alex Rodriguez's eighth-inning two-run homer off Mariners closer David Aardsma helped the Yankees salvage the finale of a three-game series and avoid a possibly crushing defeat thanks to Jorge Posada.
The catcher, who is one of the worst defensive backstops in the American League, was charged with a passed ball in the top of the eighth when he whiffed on CC Sabathia's 2-1 offering to Russell Branyan.
The blunder allowed Josh Bard to move to third and the speedy Ichiro Suzuki to advance into scoring position as the tying run.
On the next pitch, ...
Hitting a home run with the game tied has all of a sudden become commonplace for Alex Rodriguez. With the scored tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the eighth inning, Alex Rodriguez hit a go-ahead, two-run home run to lift New York to a 4-2 win over Seattle Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. It was the second time in less than a week that Rodriguez allotted the Yankees a lead with a home run. His sixth inning blast last Friday in Los Angeles was the ...
Today is the final day of balloting for the 2010 MLB All-Star Game. If it had ended yesterday, Justin Morneau would be AL's starting first baseman in Anaheim.
He's garnered 2,118,654 votes, ahead of Mark Teixeira with 1,863,235 and Miguel Cabrera with 1,832,782.
I understand why Morneau is leading the vote. The Twin leads Major League first basemen with a .349 batting average, a 1.063 OPS, 16 homers, and 52 runs driven in. He's committed only one error in 676 total chances.
I also understand why Cabrera is in the running. He's second ...
Alex Rodriguez's relationship with Yankee fans has been complicated.
Since his arrival to New York in 2004, he's been cheered and booed, quiet and controversial.
But then again, A-Rod's performance and accolades haven't exactly been consistent.
He's laid claim to two MVP awards as a Yankee, but has also posted an average below .270 in four straight playoff series.
He's hit 54 home runs and had 156 RBIs in a season, but has also admitted to steroid use.
Last season, Rodriguez came up big in the playoffs as the Yanks won it all, but there ...
In the middle of May, it looked like the Yankees had such a good backup to catcher Jorge Posada that they might even have a future starter on their hands. Through Francisco Cervelli’s first 20 games, he had a staggering .400 batting average and an impressive .987 OPS. Obviously, he wasn’t likely to keep that up, but if he could come even close to that, the Yankees had a real secret weapon.
The problem is that Cervelli hasn’t even sniffed those numbers and has been about as close to an automatic ...
Today, the calendar turned to July and the Yankees are in first place of the American League East division.
Barely.
The Red Sox are just one game behind, and the Rays are two games behind the Bombers. The pennant race is heating up, and the Yankees are surely feeling the heat.
The Yankees offense has been fairly strong, despite being shut down by Cliff Lee and shut out by Felix Hernandez this week.
For instance, Robinson Cano's MVP-type season just gave the Yankees another big bat in the middle of the lineup to go ...