 AJ Burnett, pay attention. The way rookie righty Ivan Nova pitched Sunday afternoon vs. the White Sox in a 2-1 win is what Yankee faithful expect out of you. Burnett, who has a 9-11 record on the team with one of the best records in baseball, may be pitching himself out of the rotation. He gave NYY just 3.1 innings in his last outing and Chicago beat him up for 8 ea...
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 In his previous four seasons Jose Bautista hit 59 home runs.
To say that this season has been a breakout is an understatement. Bautista blasted two more HRs, upping his league leading total to 40, and accounted for all of the Blue Jays' runs in a 3-2 win over the Yankees in Rogers Centre.
Jays starter Brandon Morrow was tough on Yankee hitters in his six innings of work...
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 When you play in the AL East you have to make hay against teams from other divisions. The Yankees did that as they upped their season record to 30 games over .500 (77-47) in whacking the Seattle Mariners 10-0 Sunday afternoon.
Aside from a 57-minute rain delay it was all New York. The rain delay shortened what had the makings of a great outing by CC Sabathia. The big so...
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 While Alex Rodriguez nurses an issue with his calf muscle Robinson Cano is cleaning up. Normally the 5-hole hitter, Cano was moved up one spot in the batting order with A-Rod out the last few games and all he has done is homer in three straight Yankee wins over Detroit.
Yesterday NYY exploded for 9 runs in the sixth inning en route to an 11-5 pasting of the Tigers. Can...
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 People in Pinstripeland saw the sun come up after all on Tuesday morning, and thanks to CC Sabathia they felt a lot better by the time they went to sleep.
The Yankees had scored just two runs in their last two games, had lost 5 of their last 8 and were 6-9 for August heading into last night's game vs. the Tigers. But Sabathia picked them up as he earned his AL leading 16th win, limi...
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 The 162 game marathon of major league baseball is in its home stretch, and for the NY Yankees the month of August has lived up to its nickname as "the dog days."
NY lost to Detroit last night, 3-1, avoiding a shutout for the second consecutive game after having been blanked in Kansas City on Sunday by a pitcher who earned his first-ever career win.
Yankees bats have been lukewarm,and compared to o...
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