Published: August 5, 2010
Bronx, NY – As the game between the New York Yankees (67-40) and the Toronto Blue Jays (56-52) the 47,659 in attendance started to encourage and cheer on the Yankee third baseman and All-Star Alex Rodriguez. In hopes that the positive energy would inspire the slugger to hit his 600th career home run, in the [...]
Published: June 21, 2010
New York -Prior to the rubber game of their three game series in the Bronx Sunday against the Yankees, New York Mets manager Jerry Manuel was asked about his starting pitcher Johan Santana. Is this the typical first half of the season for Santana, 5-3 and a 3.13 earned run average? “That’s just his history,” [...]
Published: June 21, 2010
Bronx, NY—The old baseball maxim “good pitching always stops good hitting” was proved true again during the Sunday afternoon, Father’s Day, ballgame at Yankee Stadium between the Yanks and Mets. After being shut out by Mets pitching two days earlier, the Yankees returned the favor as CC Sabathia blanked the Mets for eight innings to [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Bronx, NY—The Yanks had a large Memorial Day crowd; the weather was excellent; Andy Pettitte pitched an outstanding game; Alex Rodriguez hit his 20th grand slam home run; the Yanks had a season-high of 18 hits, and won easily by a score of 11-2. It would have been a perfect day for the Bronx organization [...]
Published: May 31, 2010
Bronx, NY—In a reversal of the previous day’s result, the Yankees had a seventh inning rally that gave them the victory on Sunday afternoon. It is an occurrence that has happened often this season. The victory was the 14th comeback win of the team’s 30 victories. Both starters were in command of their pitches and [...]
Published: May 29, 2010
BRONX, NY – The combination of effective pitching and the long-ball led to the easy 8-2 victory of the Yankees over the Cleveland Indians in the opening game of the seven game Yankees homestand. The organization and its rooters are hopeful the relatively weak opposition, Cleveland Indians (4 games) and the Baltimore Orioles (3 games), [...]
Published: May 22, 2010
Before the largest crowd 41,382, in the short history of Citi Field, the Yankees edged the Mets by a score of 2-1 in the first game of the 2010 Subway Series on Friday night. The pitchers’ duel between starters Javier Vazquez and Hisanori Takahashi was a big surprise to most observers at the ballpark. The [...]
Published: May 5, 2010
The Yankees scored 24 runs on 34 hits to win its latest weekend series, two games to one, over the Chicago White Sox. The power hitting reminded many observers at Yankee Stadium of its many powerful clubs of the past, termed the Bronx Bombers. The new ballpark, in its second season, is looked upon as [...]
Published: April 13, 2010
They have always been special, opening days at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx But this home opener was one the Yankees anticipated, perhaps even more than the one that opened their new billion dollar ballpark last April. There was that ring ceremony before the game that made it more special before beating the Los Angeles [...]
Published: October 26, 2009
BRONX, NY – CC Sabathia said he was not surprised that he and his teammates were American League champions and ready to host the Philadelphia Phillies in the Bronx Wednesday evening. Was there any doubt that the New York Yankees would return to the Fall Classic when they acquired a real pitching ace like Sabathia, [...]