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Yankees rout A’s in wild-card game, ALDS vs Red Sox next

Published: 10/04/2018 @ 08:00 am

The hours of conversation and planning that the Yankees poured into ensuring they remained alive past the third day of October boiled down to the same blueprint they have followed all year. Ride the starting pitcher just long enough to hand the game off to the vaunted bullpen, and hope that someone like Aaron Judge crushes a ball out of... more

Amerks ready to start season

Published: 10/05/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Rochester Americans begin their American Hockey League season on Friday with a home game against Charlotte, and there are some player with a lot to prove. For many of the guys on the roster, such as the younger prospect players, they are hoping they can come out to the AHL with a hot and fast start so they can... more

Mets unable to reward Matz’s scoreless start

Published: 09/19/2018 @ 08:00 am

Steven Matz did basically everything one man could to put the Mets in a position to win, but a disastrous sixth inning sunk New York in a 5-2 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday night. The Mets took a two-run lead into the sixth thanks to the multi-tool performance from Matz, who hit a solo home... more

Yankees keep Sox champagne on ice

Published: 09/19/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Yankees are constructed to thrive upon the home run, and on a day when they surprised many by welcoming back one of the league’s most celebrated power hitters, it was Neil Walker who delivered the most important drive of the night. Walker upstaged Aaron Judge’s return to the lineup with a three-run homer in the seventh inning, ensuring that... more

The plot thickens in the case against Bills’ RB LeSean McCoy

Published: 09/20/2018 @ 08:00 am

Bills running back LeSean McCoy seemed to be in the clear from his legal trouble as the NFL season began. But the plot thickened Tuesday when the mother of McCoy’s child filed an affidavit with the State Court of Fulton County, Ga. that included serious allegations against McCoy. Stephanie Maisonet, the mother of McCoy’s 6-year-old son, LeSean Jr., alleged that... more

Syndergaard allows 2 homers in loss to Phillies

Published: 09/20/2018 @ 08:00 am

Jose Reyes has accrued 394 plate appearances at Citizens Bank Park over the years, and many of them have offered outcomes more interesting than when he pinch-hit for Noah Syndergaard in the top of the fifth inning of the Mets’ eventual 4-0 loss to the Phillies on Wednesday night. Reyes struck out after Tomas Nido did the same, and three... more

Voit’s two homers lift Yankees over Red Sox for 2nd straight night

Published: 09/20/2018 @ 08:00 am

This is a different Yankees team than the fatigued group that rolled their bags out of Fenway Park following a fourth straight loss in early August, as the Red Sox have learned through the first 18 innings of their visit. Moving closer to full strength with some fresh faces mixed in, these division rivals would almost certainly make for a... more

BILLS WIN: Buffalo dominant in blow-out victory in Minnesota (full coverage)

Published: 09/21/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Buffalo Bills were firing on all cylinders in their Week 3 win over the Minnesota Vikings. Buffalo’s offense came out strong, scoring on their first five drives. Josh Allen looked like a seasoned veteran in his second career start, completing 15 passes for 196 yards and one touchdown. The Bills possessed the ball for 35:45 on Sunday. The Bills’... more

Mets hit 2 homers off Scherzer, win in 12

Published: 09/21/2018 @ 08:00 am

Given a chance to push the last man standing against Jacob deGrom out of the National League Cy Young race, the Mets at least prevented Max Scherzer from changing the texture of it. Michael Conforto and Jay Bruce hit back-to-back home runs on Thursday, ensuring that Scherzer — the only NL pitcher who still had a chance at reaching 20... more

Yankees unable to stop Red Sox’s clinching party

Published: 09/21/2018 @ 08:00 am

Giancarlo Stanton raised his arms into the air and floated around the basepaths, celebrating a grand slam that the slumping slugger sorely needed. And yet it was not enough for the Yankees, who had no choice but to plug their ears and ignore the celebration being prepared in the visiting clubhouse of their building. Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a game-tying... more

Oswalt a bright spot in Mets’ loss to Nats

Published: 09/23/2018 @ 08:00 am

Outside of a few aches and pains here and there, the Mets’ rotation has stayed remarkably healthy this season. A group with significant injury concerns heading into the spring has quelled nearly all of them, with Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz in particular combining to start 111 of the team’s first 155 games. As a result,... more

Yankees clinch Wild Card berth on walk-off win in 11th

Published: 09/23/2018 @ 08:00 am

One year after their run ended a victory shy of advancing to the World Series, the Yankees are officially back in the postseason for another crack at the title. Aaron Hicks doubled home Didi Gregorius to lift New York to a 3-2, 11-inning victory over the Orioles on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, punching a ticket for the American League Wild... more

Bad day in the Bronx: Didi hurt, Yankees lose to Orioles

Published: 09/24/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Yankees knew that their work was incomplete, even when more than 100 empty bottles of bubbly were transported to the recycling bin. Now that Didi Gregorius could miss the remainder of the regular season with a right wrist injury, their mission to hold off the Athletics for home-field advantage in the American League Wild Card Game has grown more... more

McNeil’s hot bat spurs Mets to rainy series win

Published: 09/24/2018 @ 08:00 am

With each passing game, what Jeff McNeil is doing seems like less of a fluke. The prospect of him repeating it grows more plausible. The idea of keeping him as the Mets’ regular second baseman next season appears increasingly smart. It is difficult to deny what McNeil has accomplished over his first two months in the big leagues, rapping out... more

Amerks hit the ice at first day of training camp

Published: 09/25/2018 @ 08:00 am

After reaching the playoffs for the first time in four years, it was time to get back to work for the Amerks. Monday was the first day of training camp for Rochester, but unlike many previous seasons, this year’s team is loaded with veterans and returning players who built up the core of last year’s playoff team. Chris Taylor is... more

Gardner enters to spark Yankees over Rays

Published: 09/25/2018 @ 08:00 am

The longest-tenured Yankee insists that he has not peeled back the layers of his uncertain future. If this is indeed the closing act of Brett Gardner’s time in New York, he intends to keep the same approach that kept him with the organization for all this time, leaving every ounce of effort on the field. Gardner came off the bench... more

Bills trade Marshall Newhouse to Panthers; sign lineman Jeremiah Sirles

Published: 09/26/2018 @ 08:00 am

The Buffalo Bills-Carolina Panthers connection keeps on churning the rosters of both teams. On Tuesday, the Bills sent offensive lineman Marshall Newhouse to the Panthers for an undisclosed future conditional draft pick, the Bills announced. Meanwhile, the Bills added offensive lineman Jeremiah Sirles. Sirles, who worked out for the Bills last week, signed a one-year contract. Trades between the Bills... more

Thor bounces back, but Mets bullpen can’t close deal

Published: 09/26/2018 @ 08:00 am

Despite being one of the better pitchers in the National League, Noah Syndergaard will still be kept up at night by the Braves, wondering what more he could have done. Atlanta is the one team in the National League (besides the Mets) against whom Syndergaard does not have a win. That tradition continued on Tuesday at Citi Field, when the... more

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