J.A. Happ is an off-speed pitcher, who when his off speed pitch is off speeding, he can be brilliant. When it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, he can get hit, and Yankee twitter […]
This was the game where the Yanks were to face San Diego’s heralded young ace — Chris Paddack. And that has in the past proved trouble for the Yankees — and any team — seeing […]
Masahiro Tanaka‘s spit finger fastball hasn’t been splitting this year — but he’s still been pitching well utilizing his other pitches. It is said he uses his split-finger fastball 25% of the time. In this […]
The grand plan worked again — throw in a decent starter — in this case an “Opener” and a “Mop Up Man” and then let that incredible Yankee ballpen pitch shutout innings the last half […]
Domingo German was roughed up — 7 runs in 5 innings, and the Yankees were down 7-1 through 5 innings — but they started chipping away and then launched a 9th inning comeback to tie […]
Good old fashioned double header Sweep for the 34-17 Yankees over the 17-34 KC Royals. The Yankees are now 11-1 in their last 12, and have won 7 in a row. They are in first […]
The Yankees had the first “Designated Hitter” (DH) in Ron Blomberg. The Yankees arguably had the first designated “Closer” in Joe Page. The Yankees arguably had the first designated “Setup Man” in Dick Tidrow. The […]
Aaron Hicks walked with the bases loaded in the top of the 9th to put the Yankees back on top for the 6-5 win on a Thursday afternoon in Baltimore — the Yankees sweeping the […]
Tora! Tora! Tora! was the Japanese call for Attack! Attack! Attack! — famously used in their attack on Pearl Harbor (there was a movie by that name in the 70’s). The Yankee code signal for […]
DJ LeMahieu led off the game with a single to right; Luke Voit followed with a single to left; and Gary Sanchez swung and missed at ball four — a pitch way outside, fouled off […]
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