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New York Yankees 5 — Detroit Tigers 1 Phil Hughes went the distance in today’s 5-1 win over the Detroit Tigers. In a match-up between reigning Cy Young and MVP winner Justin Verlander against Yankees starter Phil Hughes, Hughes outdueled Verlander. In his first (actual) complete game, Hughes only gave up 1 run [...]
New York Yankees 3 — Detroit Tigers 4 Omir Santos hit it deep enough to walk-off in tonight’s 4-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers. The Yankees struggles with runners in scoring position continued as they went 1 for 12 in the best opportunities to score. With runners on 2nd & 3rd and just [...]
New York Yankees 9 — Detroit Tigers 4 Granderson hits a grand slam against his former team over the Detroit Tigers by a score of 9-4 tonight. Curtis Granderson burned his old team in the 2nd inning with a grand slam off of Detroit starter Casey Crosby. Four walks prior to the grand [...]
New York Yankees 6 — Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 5 Early run support for Nova was enough to get the win in tonight’s 6-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Early offense occurred by both teams as starting pitchers Ivan Nova and Ervin Santana struggled. Nova was faced with an [...]
New York Yankees 1 — Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 5 Home runs out of reach and base hits in reach led to tonight’s 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Andy Pettitte took the mound in a visiting ballpark for the first time of his comeback year and the Angels [...]
New York Yankees 8 — Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 9 A hanging changeup became a walk-off home run in tonight’s 9-8 loss to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. This game had moments that the Yankees appeared to have the advantage and times where they didn’t. Early in the 1st inning, Jered [...]
New York Yankees 2 — Oakland Athletics 0 Kuroda blanked the weak-hitting A’s in today’s 2-0 win. Entering today’s start, Hiroki Kuroda was 0-4 on the road away from Yankee Stadium. But today he looked like he was at home. The most significant threat of today’s outing was in the 7th inning with [...]
New York Yankees 9 — Oakland Athletics 2 Mark Teixeira went deep two times in today’s 9-2 win over the Oakland Athletics. With 14 hits, the Yankees offense continues piling on the offense in this series against a weak Oakland Athletics team. Mark Teixeira’s 4 hits included a solo home run in the [...]
New York Yankees 6 — Oakland Athletics 3 Three home runs backed Nova in tonight’s 6-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. The Yankees offense got to Oakland starter Tyson Ross fast and with a trio of blasts. In 4.1 innings of work, Ross gave up 6 runs, 3 earned, on 11 hits. With [...]
Kansas City Royals 3 — New York Yankees 8 A pair of home runs, some walks and a strong pitching performance were huge in tonight’s 8-3 win over the Kansas City Royals. Andy Pettitte took the mound for the Yankees and built upon his last impressive outing against the Reds. In 7 innings [...]
Kansas City Royals 2 — New York Yankees 3 Timely hitting and inches played a huge factor in tonight’s 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals. The Yankees struggles with runners in scoring position has been brought to attention regularly and many believed the struggles would continue. However, in the 5th inning, an [...]
Kansas City Royals 6 — New York Yankees 0 The Yankees were unable to score while they couldn’t stop giving them up in tonight’s 6-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals. Hiroki Kuroda’s outing would not be what was considered a bad outing, especially in comparison to some of his previous outings, as [...]
Cincinnati Reds 5 — New York Yankees 2 One bad inning spoiled CC’s start in today’s 5-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. CC Sabathia entered the 7th inning with a two-run lead. Unfortunately this was the one bad inning as he gave up two solo home runs to tie the game just after [...]
Cincinnati Reds 6 — New York Yankees 5 Yankees fans witnessed the good and the bad of Ivan Nova in today’s 6-5 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Ivan Nova went 6 innings and struck out a career-high 12 Reds today. 8 of the first 9 outs of Nova’s outing were a strikeout. This [...]
Cincinnati Reds 0 — New York Yankees 4 Andy Pettitte pitched an amazing game in tonight’s 4-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds. In Pettitte’s second start of the season, he went 8 scoreless innings with just 4 hits and 9 strikeouts. This was his longest outing since in Seattle in the 2010 season. [...]
New York Yankees 1 — Toronto Blue Jays 4 The offense struggled again in last night’s 4-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees offense appeared to not make the trip up to Canada as the offense went a total of 1 for 16 with runners in scoring position. In last night’s [...]
New York Yankees 1 — Toronto Blue Jays 8 Three home runs defeated Kuroda in tonight’s 8-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. J.P. Arencibia, Edwin Encarnacion, and Jose Bautista each went deep against the Japanese right-hander who continues to struggle on the road. Kuroda is now 0-4 away from Yankee Stadium. The [...]
New York Yankees 2 — Baltimore Orioles 5 The offensive struggles lead to CC’s first loss of the season in tonight’s 5-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. Taiwanese rookie left-hander, Wei-Yin Chen limited the Yankees offense to just 2 runs on 4 hits. The runs came on Curtis Granderson’s 13th home run of [...]
New York Yankees 8 — Baltimore Orioles 5 This 8-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles is difficult to call a win with the injuries that we came out with. A pair of injuries occurred in tonight’s game and one injury became evident in the 9th inning. The first injury that occurred was to [...]
Seattle Mariners 6 — New York Yankees 2 Andy Pettitte’s return was spoiled by the long ball in today’s 6-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners. The beloved left-handed starter returned from retirement and made his first start of the season. A pair of two-run home runs by Justin Smoak and Casper Wells were [...]
