After the bases-loaded strikeout and the game-ending strikeout, Alex Rodriguez stood at his locker last night and swore he was healthy enough to have done the job. “Health had nothing to do with it,” he said. Fair enough. The hip injury is in the past, the knee has been fixed and Rodriguez learned to deal [...]
Read More...Maybe the offseason officially begins when the World Series ends, or maybe it begins the day players file for free agency, or when you see that first signing rumor on Twitter. Or maybe it started last night, the very moment Alex Rodriguez struck out and the Yankees season came to an end. Of all the [...]
Read More...Jorge Posada’s eyes were a little bit red when he emerged from the off-limits area and stepped in front of his locker. They were worse when he left. Posada’s Yankees career most likely came to a crashing end Thursday night. Make that, almost certainly did. And when he left the clubhouse, you got the idea [...]
Read More...Jim Leyland had a story to tell, and so he sat at the podium before today’s decisive Game 5 and began speaking before anyone asked a question. “I have an announcement to make,” he said. “This will explain why you think I’m so old and grumpy and messed up. I got a telegram today from [...]
Read More...Ivan Nova’s first start of the year came on April 4, the day after the Yankees season-opening series against the Tigers. His sixth and seventh starts of the year came immediately before and immediately after a four-game series in Detroit. In other words, before Game 1 of the division series, the Tigers only look at [...]
Read More...One recurring theme of the off day press conferences at Yankee Stadium was the impact of Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild. Joe Girardi In his first year with Rothschild as the Yankees pitching coach “(His contribution) doesn’t go unnoticed in our clubhouse, because we’re with him every day and we understand the value of him [...]
Read More...Joe Girardi said today that his plan is unchanged. He expects CC Sabathia to be an available part of his bullpen. “It doesn’t matter how he feels today,” Girardi said. “It matters how he feels tomorrow. I would expect I would have him.” Ultimately, tomorrow’s must-win could change the bullpen strategy in more ways than [...]
Read More...At this point, it seems the rain might have helped the Yankees. Leaving Detroit with the division series tied heading into a decisive Game 5, the Yankees are moving forward as planned. It was their expectation all along that Ivan Nova would start Game 5, and now they have Nova pitching with CC Sabathia available [...]
Read More...It took A.J. Burnett exactly six pitches to walk his first batter tonight. Larry Rothschild went to the mound after five hitters, Cory Wade was throwing in the bullpen before the third out, and the only thing that let Burnett escape the first inning was a leaping, falling catch by Curtis Granderson. That was the [...]
Read More...YANKEES Derek Jeter SS Curtis Granderson CF Robinson Cano 2B Alex Rodriguez 3B Mark Teixeira 1B Nick Swisher RF Jorge Posada DH Russell Martin C Brett Gardner LF TIGERS Austin Jackson CF Ramon Santiago 2B Delmon Young LF Miguel Cabrera 1B Victor Martinez DH Don Kelly RF Jhonny Peralta SS Alex Avila C Wilson Betemit [...]
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