Category: New York Yankees

Gary Sanchez hit his third homer in two games and added a two-run single as the Yankees continued to roll over the Tigers with a 10-2 win Wednesday night at Comerica Park. The Yankees’ seventh win in nine games, and their second straight lopsided win over the Tigers, moved them 11 games over .500 for the first time since June... more

For the second straight weekend, the Red Sox were successful in their quest of preventing the Yankees from making a dent in the American League East standings. Backed by a pair of two-out RBI hits by Jackie Bradley Jr. and a strong pitching performance from the resurgent Rick Porcello, Boston once again took two out of three from New York,... more

The rivalry has been back to its riveting best the last two weekends, and no lead ever feels safe. The Yankees and Red Sox traded impressive comebacks in Friday night’s series opener, but Boston prevailed with a 9-6 victory that had Fenway Park rocking in the late innings — and with good reason. With the win, the Red Sox opened... more

After a couple of recent missteps against the Red Sox, the Yankees had some urgency to win Saturday night and not lose any more ground in the American League East. That meant beating heavy AL Cy Young Award favorite Chris Sale, and the Bronx Bombers used a couple of home-run swings to pull off that daunting task en route to... more

After a rather tough week where the Yankees finished just 2-4, the team finds itself just 1.5 games up over a heavy Wild Card race. Taking just one game in the series versus the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox, the Yankees are going to have to turn things around, and soon, if they want to clinch that coveted... more

In what could have been viewed as his club’s most important game of the season, Aaron Hicks homered to spark a five-run rally and uncorked a terrific throw to help the Yankees stun the Red Sox and snap their eight-game winning streak with a 5-4 victory on Friday evening at Yankee Stadium. Blanked on two hits going to the eighth,... more

Andrew Benintendi’s sweet stroke produced a pair of three-run homers as the Red Sox pounded Luis Severino and the Yankees, 10-5, on Saturday afternoon to claim their ninth victory in 10 games. One day after the Red Sox’s bullpen coughed up a three-run advantage just six outs from victory, Benintendi ensured there would be no repeat of that performance as... more

Josh Donaldson hit a pair of two-run homers and J.A. Happ pitched well into the sixth inning as the Blue Jays defeated the Yankees, 4-2, on Tuesday evening at Rogers Centre in the opener of a three-game series. Donaldson notched the 12th multi-homer game of his career by launching his 14th and 15th long balls of the year in his... more

Todd Frazier has opted to be referred to as “The Toddfather” during the upcoming Players Weekend, but on Wednesday night, he was simply the man who homered and drove in three runs to help power the Yankees to an 11-5 victory over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Gary Sanchez (“Kraken”) and Didi Gregorius (“Sir Didi”) also homered for the... more

Marco Estrada befuddled the Yankees over seven scoreless innings to pick up his first win since May 27, and Jose Bautista crushed his third homer in four games as the Blue Jays secured the rubber game of the three-game series with a 4-0 victory at Rogers Centre on Thursday night. Ryan Goins, Josh Donaldson and Kevin Pillar drove in runs... more

Jacoby Ellsbury broke the game open, but Aaron Judge put it away. Both of their offensive heroics on Sunday afternoon helped power the Yankees to an 8-1 rout over the Indians at Progressive Field, salvaging a split of the four-game set between postseason hopefuls. In supporting a stellar start by Yankees righty Luis Severino, Ellsbury delivered a three-run triple off... more

Jacoby Ellsbury broke the game open, but Aaron Judge put it away. Both of their offensive heroics on Sunday afternoon helped power the Yankees to an 8-1 rout over the Indians at Progressive Field, salvaging a split of the four-game set between postseason hopefuls. In supporting a stellar start by Yankees righty Luis Severino, Ellsbury delivered a three-run triple off... more

Anibal Sanchez pitched a season-high 6 2/3 innings and John Hicks lifted a three-run homer as the Tigers defeated the Yankees, 4-3, on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. New York now trails Boston by a half-game in the American League East, as the Red Sox topped the Indians on a walk-off homer in the ninth. Sanchez has struggled for much... more

A Tigers starter kept the Yankees’ lineup quiet for the second game in a row as Jordan Zimmermann tossed seven shutdown innings in Detroit’s 2-0 win on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium. Zimmermann was hitting his spots for much of the afternoon, and the Yankees’ only real scoring chances came in the third and in the sixth innings. He was removed... more