Category: New York Yankees

The Rangers tightened the American League Wild Card race by rallying for an 11-5 victory over the Yankees in the opener of a three-game series at Global Life Park on Friday night. The Yankees now lead the Twins by just 1 1/2 games for the top spot in the Wild Card standings. The Rangers remain 2 1/2 games behind the... more

After a dazzling pitching duel, the Yankees pushed across two runs in the top of the ninth to knock off the Rangers, 3-1, on Saturday afternoon at Globe Life Park. The Yankees trailed, 1-0, after seven before rallying and reinforcing their hold on the lead in the American League Wild Card race. The Rangers are five back of the Yankees... more

Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez each crushed two home runs and Didi Gregorius had four hits as the Yankees won for the second time in three games against the Rangers with a 16-7 victory Sunday afternoon at Globe Life Park. “It was a combination of a lot of hits, a lot of guys getting on base and having good at-bats... more

Evan Longoria had joked that there is no such thing as a “neutral site” when playing against the Yankees, whose followers always seem to travel quite well. Todd Frazier’s three-run homer highlighted a five-run fourth inning as the Bombers made the interborough trip a memorable one, powering a 5-1 victory over the Rays on Monday evening at Citi Field. In... more

Sonny Gray breezed into the eighth inning, turning in one of his sharpest efforts since being acquired by the Yankees. Adeiny Hechavarria rewrote that story with one swing, lifting the Rays to a 2-1 victory on Tuesday evening at Citi Field, Tampa Bay’s home turf for this series due to Hurricane Irma. With their loss and Boston’s rout of Oakland,... more

Starlin Castro homered and drove in three runs, Didi Gregorius slugged a two-run shot and the Yankees roared from behind to celebrate a 7-4 series-opening victory over the Orioles on Monday afternoon at Camden Yards. With their third straight win and fourth in the last five games, the Yankees closed within 2 1/2 games of the American League East-leading Red... more

The American League Player of the Month in August, Manny Machado shows no signs of slowing down. Machado’s two-out, walk-off homer — his second blast of the game — erased the O’s deficit and gave them some late-inning heroics and a badly-needed 7-6, series-evening win over the Yankees in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. The win moves the O’s... more

The Yankees are not downplaying the importance of this weekend as they continue to chase the Red Sox for the top spot in the American League East, and their hopes for a meaningful September race remained alive with a 6-2 victory on Thursday evening at Yankee Stadium. As the rivals opened a four-game set that marks their final meeting of... more

Doug Fister continued to solidify the Red Sox’s rotation by supplying a stellar four-hit effort, and Boston cracked three homers off Sonny Gray, reclaiming their 5 1/2-game advantage in the American League East with a 4-1 victory over the Yankees on Friday evening in the Bronx. Fister settled in nicely after Brett Gardner and Aaron Judge led off the first... more

Masahiro Tanaka doffed his cap as he walked off the mound to a standing ovation in the eighth inning, a well-deserved reward after helping his Yankees keep their division dreams alive with a 5-1 victory on Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Tanaka limited Boston to a run and five hits over seven-plus innings to win his third consecutive start and... more

Yankees manager Joe Girardi wasn’t around to watch the end of Sunday’s 10-1 win over the Mariners after getting ejected in the third inning. But his Seattle counterpart, Scott Servais, might have wished he’d taken an early dismissal as well after watching the Mariners commit five errors in the first inning of the series finale in the Bronx. Three errors... more

Jose Ramirez homered twice and Carlos Santana belted a go-ahead blast to support Corey Kluber’s sharp effort, leading the Indians to a 6-2 victory on Monday evening at Yankee Stadium. Ramirez celebrated his fourth multi-homer game of the season, taking Luis Severino deep in the first and sixth innings. Santana gave the Indians the lead with a shot into the... more

Tuesday’s scheduled game between the Indians and the Yankees at Yankee Stadium has been postponed due to inclement weather. The clubs will instead play a single-admission doubleheader on Wednesday, with first pitch scheduled for 1:05 p.m. ET. Trevor Bauer had been lined up to start for the Indians against Jaime Garcia. They are now set to face off in the... more

Behind a pair of strong pitching performances from Trevor Bauer and Ryan Merritt, the Indians grabbed both ends of Wednesday’s doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, finishing off a series sweep of the Yankees with a 9-4 victory in the nightcap. Cleveland improved to a season-high 20 games over .500 as Edwin Encarnacion, Yan Gomes and Francisco Lindor homered in the second... more

A back-and-forth of hit-by-pitches dating back to last month ignited a trio of benches-clearing confrontations Thursday afternoon between the Tigers and Yankees, starting with Miguel Cabrera and Austin Romine throwing punches at each other and winding up with Alex Wilson and Todd Frazier gesturing at each other. Five players, both managers and a bench coach were ejected over the course... more

Sonny Gray relished his best start so far for the Yankees, as the man known as “Pickles” during the ongoing Players Weekend festivities fired seven innings of one-run ball in Saturday’s 6-3 victory over the Mariners. Gray allowed just three hits and struck out nine, and he is now 2-3 with a 2.70 ERA in five starts since being acquired... more

The New York Yankees concluded their “Rivalry Week”, on Sunday, with a 5-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox. As of August 22nd, at 6:30, the team is 4.5 games back of Boston, while being 2.5 up of a Wild Card spot. Sweeping Our Little Brother Telling a team to “bend the knee” is a very bold thing to say.... more

Gary Sanchez’s tape-measure home run — the first of two homers by the catcher — ignited a Yankees onslaught on Matthew Boyd and the Tigers’ bullpen, supporting seven quality innings from Masahiro Tanaka in his return from the disabled list for a 13-4 New York victory Tuesday night at Comerica Park. The win moved the Yankees back to 10 games... more