Category: New York Yankees

They lined up outside Rogers Centre by the thousands early on Sunday afternoon, hoping to collect one of the Josh Donaldson bobbleheads being handed out. The man of the hour sent the paying crowd and their tchotchkes home in style, launching a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning that lifted the Blue Jays to a 3-2 victory over the... more

The Orioles’ struggling bats broke out in a big way Wednesday as Chris Davis and Adam Jones homered, leading Baltimore to a 10-4 victory over the Yankees. The win, Baltimore’s fifth in its last 19 games, dropped first-place New York to 13-12 on the road this season. Jones hit a two-run homer off Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka and drove in... more

The Blue Jays might be getting healthier but the Yankees showed why they are currently the best team in the American League East with a convincing 12-2 victory on Thursday night at Rogers Centre. New York scored early and often against the surging Blue Jays, who entered this game having won eight of their last nine. Gary Sanchez led the... more

Josh Donaldson homered twice to back Francisco Liriano’s successful return to the rotation and the Blue Jays withstood Aaron Judge’s Major League-leading 18th home run in a 7-5 victory over the Yankees on Friday evening at Rogers Centre. Justin Smoak hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who have won nine of their last 11 games. Donaldson went deep... more

Aaron Judge ripped his first career grand slam in the third inning to put the Yankees ahead for good, and Michael Pineda gutted out six innings in the team’s 9-5 win over the Athletics on Sunday at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees’ offense had scored a combined four runs in the first two games of the series before Judge drove in... more

The New York Yankees continue to surprise many, as they still cruise along as one of baseball’s best teams. Currently holding the third best win percentage in Major League Baseball with a 29-18 record (.617),they are 3 games ahead of first place in the AL East. This week the success was built around their starting pitching. Strong outings from everyone... more

The Orioles used seven stellar innings from Dylan Bundy and a clutch two-out, two-run double from Jonathan Schoop to snap their season-high seven-game skid with Monday’s 3-2, series-opening win over the first-place Yankees at Camden Yards. “It’s a challenge every day not living in that world, staying strong mentally through the challenges that every season presents, good and bad,” Orioles... more

Brett Gardner and Matt Holliday each turned in multi-homer nights as the Yankees jumped out to an early eight-run lead and rode it to the tune of Tuesday’s 8-3 series-evening victory over the Orioles. The American League East-leading Yanks entered the day second in the American League in runs, but averaging just 3.36 per game since May 18. They raised... more

Masahiro Tanaka rebounded from the worst two-start stretch of his career with a 13-strikeout performance, but Jed Lowrie drove home the tiebreaking run and Stephen Vogt slugged a two-run homer as the Athletics secured a 4-1 victory over the Yankees on Friday evening at Yankee Stadium. Lowrie collected his third hit of the game in the eighth inning off Tyler... more

CC Sabathia continued the Yankees’ run of strong starting pitching with a season-high nine strikeouts and Matt Holliday’s homer broke up a no-hit bid in the sixth inning, leading the Yankees to a 3-2 victory over the Athletics on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. Yankees starters have compiled a 1.56 ERA in five starts during this homestand, a trend that Sabathia... more

A pair of big swings by Lorenzo Cain and rookie Jorge Bonifacio helped break up what had been a taut pitching duel for the first six innings, with the Royals hitting four homers to power past the Yankees in a 6-2 victory on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. Rookie Jordan Montgomery carried a one-hit shutout into the seventh before Cain... more

The Yankees headed over to Kauffman Stadium to take on the Kansas City Royals. Starting pitcher, C.C. Sabathia has hit a major skid as of late, allowing 22 runs in his last four starts, however this start was the bounceback he needed. Against a Royals offense that is currently 30th in runs scored, the 36-year-old went for 6 ⅔ scoreless... more

Luis Severino harnessed his electric arsenal to produce the deepest outing of any Yankees starting pitcher over the last two weeks, firing eight scoreless innings in a 3-0 victory over the Royals on Wednesday night at the Stadium. Severino gave the Yanks’ fatigued bullpen a breather by limiting Kansas City to just four hits in a 114-pitch performance, increasing New... more

Brett Gardner hit a two-run homer and Aaron Judge preserved the lead with a sensational diving catch as the Yankees withstood Chris Archer’s season-high 12 strikeouts, snapping their three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Rays on Sunday at Tropicana Field. Gardner’s second-inning blast was his eighth homer in the past 20 games, exceeding his total for all... more

Didi Gregorius hit a go-ahead homer, Brett Gardner continued his power surge and the Yankees got the benefit of a close call at first base to edge the Royals, 4-2, on Monday at Yankee Stadium. Gregorius and Gardner went deep off Kansas City left-hander Jason Vargas, who lost to New York for the second time in a week. Gardner put... more

Didi Gregorius hit a go-ahead homer, Brett Gardner continued his power surge and the Yankees got the benefit of a close call at first base to edge the Royals, 4-2, on Monday at Yankee Stadium. Gregorius and Gardner went deep off Kansas City left-hander Jason Vargas, who lost to New York for the second time in a week. Gardner put... more

A pair of big swings by Lorenzo Cain and rookie Jorge Bonifacio helped break up what had been a taut pitching duel for the first six innings, with the Royals hitting four homers to power past the Yankees in a 6-2 victory on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. Rookie Jordan Montgomery carried a one-hit shutout into the seventh before Cain... more

The Yankees headed over to Kauffman Stadium to take on the Kansas City Royals. Starting pitcher, C.C. Sabathia has hit a major skid as of late, allowing 22 runs in his last four starts, however this start was the bounceback he needed. Against a Royals offense that is currently 30th in runs scored, the 36-year-old went for 6 ⅔ scoreless... more