The Yankees ran out of pitchers. And so Michael Tonkin took the mound in the bottom of the 10th with the Yankees up 6-5, after Giancarlo Stanton‘s clutch double in the top of the 10th had put NY up and on the verge of a win. Michael Tonkin who? would be the question of most, even diehard, Yankee fans. New York picked up Tonkin on waivers the day before. The Yankees are the 4TH TEAM Tonkin has been on SO FAR THIS YEAR — AND IT’S APRIL 27th! The 34-year-old journeyman has been on the Mets twice, Minnesota, and the Yankees in 3 weeks! He started the year with the Mets; was sent to Minnesota for c ..read more

The Yankees banged out 11 hits and got 3 walks — but only scored 1 run as they squandered opportunity after opportunity in losing to the A’s 3-1 at Yankee Stadium on a cold Thursday night (temps in high 40’s to 50). While much of New York was watching the Knicks game #3 against Philly, the Yankees seemed just as distracted. NY loaded the bases with nobody out in the 1st and didn’t score; loaded the bases with 1 out in the 4th and didn’t score; had 2 baserunners in the 5th and 6th and didn’t score; and put a baserunner on in the 7th, 8th, and 9th — bringing the tying run to the plate — but didn ..read more

Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, and Anthony Rizzo hit homers, and Clarke Schmidt pitched shutout ball into the 6th as the Yankees beat Oakland 7-3 on a Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. Judge’s homer came in the same at bat that he struck out in — pitcher Joe Boyle was called for a balk on the pitch so Judge was given another chance. With the count still 1-2, he hit a 97-MPH four-seam fastball into the seats in right for a 2-0 Yankee lead in the 2nd. Rizzo’s homer came in the 5th to give Schmidt a 5-0 lead. Schmidt was cruising until he allowed a walk, double, and homerun with 1 out in the 6th to mak ..read more

The Yankees vaunted lineup worked as designed in the winter, with Juan Soto (single), Aaron Judge (double), and Giancarlo Stanton (double) ripping consecutive hits and Anthony Rizzo topping it off with a homer for 4 runs in the 1st inning. NY didn’t score another run the rest of the night but Marcus Stroman and the bullpen made those 4 runs stand up for the 4-3 victory over the A’s on a chilly Spring Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. “I don’t think we’ve scored a lot in the 1st — we’ve kind of done our damage when we’ve grinded down and gotten into the middle innings. So to put up a big one esp ..read more

Baseball has a problem: The ball is clearly lively.  It MOVES when pitched. Everybody and their mother strikes out 10 in 5 innings these days. Pitching Ninja has become a cottage industry. Throw in computer-aided positioning and the batting averages are at record LOWs. Hit it and it’s gone. There is not a dearth of homeruns — many teams set their all-time record last year. You just have to be the first team to hit it. In this game, Oakland was. Final score: Oakland 2 NY 0 on a 2-run homer in the 9th by Zach Gelof. On a Monday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. “Credit to Gelof,” said manager ..read more

Luis Gil (pronounced Heel as in Gila Monster) pitched 1-unearned-run baseball into the 6th inning, striking out 9, and Alex Verdugo got 3 hits and 2 RBI to lead the Yankees to a 5-4 win on a Cold Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. NY put 4 runs on the board in the bottom of the 5th, the rally starting with 2 outs and nobody on — walk, walk, walk, single, single, single — and the bullpen made it stand up, barely. Dennis Santana barely got through the 8th, allowing 3 runs and getting a line drive out with the tying run at 2nd. In the 9th, Victor Gonzalez made a tremendous play for the final out ..read more

Nestor Cortes pitched 7 shutout innings, allowing 6 hits, striking out 9 and walking nobody — a tremendous start. That was the good news. The bad news is that the Yankees never scored, losing 2-0 in 10 innings as Ben Rortvedt put the game away by singling in the 2nd run. And Aaron Judge went 0-4 with 4 strikeouts on his Bobblehead day. On a Sunny, nice Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium — the game played after a tribute to John Sterling that was hastily arranged by NY this week after the sudden announcement of Sterling’s retirement, effective immediately. “Eflin threw well,” said manager Aar ..read more

Juan Soto hit a 3-run BLAST into the Upper Deck in right field in the 8th inning to propel the Yanks to another late inning, come-from-behind win — 5-3 over Tampa on a cold Friday night in the Bronx. The Yanks went into the bottom of the 7th trailing 1-0, but rallied for a run on a couple of Tampa errors to tie it, and went ahead 2-1 on an RBI single by Anthony Volpe. Juan Soto then hit a 3-run BLAST to make it 5-1 NY, as Yankee fans chanted “MVP!, MVP!” The Yanks needed every bit of that lead as Ian Hamilton allowed 2 runs in the 8th, and Clay Holmes invited everyone onto his Rollercoaster Ri ..read more

The Yankees were down 4-1 in the 8th inning and about to get swept in the 3-game series by the Blue Jays, but came back to win 6-4, as Jose Trevino stroked a game-tying single in the top of the 9th, Aaron Judge followed with a Clutch, 2-out single to put NY up 6-4, and Anthony Volpe made a spectacular play behind 2nd to end the game. NY 6 Toronto 4 on a Wednesday afternoon in Toronto in a game that had as many as 8 heroes for NY. Marcus Stroman pitched well as the starter, Oswaldo Cabrera got 2 hits, scored the Yankees’ first run, and made a spectacular defensive play at 3rd, Juan Soto went 3 ..read more

Chris Bassitt mowed the Yankees down for 6.1 innings of 1 run ball, and the Toronto bullpen did the rest in beating NY 3-1 on a Monday night in Toronto. Bassitt allowed 3 straight singles in the 2nd inning for a Yankee run (RBI Oswaldo Cabrera) but other than that was tough to hit. Yankee starter Luis Gil pitched 5 innings, striking out 6 but walking 7 — including 3 in the 2nd inning when he walked in a run, then threw a wild pitch for another run. Toronto made it 3-1 in the 3rd when Gleyber Torres failed to make a play on an infield grounder that was ruled a hit, the runner coming around to s ..read more