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The Yankees look loaded this season — with a phenomenal starting pitching staff, a terrific bullpen with a great closer, and so much talent on the field that Jasson Dominguez had to start the year […]

This one looked like a loss, early — the Yanks down 4-0 with 2 outs in the 5th as Ryan Weathers, Paul Blackburn, and the Yankee defense allowed early runs. But the Yankee offense came […]

Pitching, defense, homeruns, “small ball”, and stolen bases — the Yanks have it all and applied it all to the Miami Marlins for an 8-2 win on a Friday afternoon — opening day — at […]

Cam Schlittler was absolutely dominant again — throwing a 2-hit shutout into the 7th, striking out 7 and walking none, and leaving with a 4-0 lead — and the Yankee pen hung on for a […]

Another game, another great Yankee pitching performance — this time by Max Fried, again — 7 innings of 3-hit shutout baseball and the bullpen of lefties Brent Headrick and Tim Hill wrapped up for a […]

After allowing just 1 run in the first 3 games of the season against the San Francisco Giants, the Yanks went up the coast to Seattle and had another fine night of pitching — with […]

Imagine being a fan of the San Francisco Giants this morning — who started the season with a 3-game series at home against the Yankees, and saw their team go up against NY’s vaunted pitching […]

Cam Schlittler was Scintilating — pitching a 1-hit shutout into the 6th inning and striking out 8 with no walks — and Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton both clubbed HR’s in the 6th inning to […]

Aaron Judge struck out his first 4 times up, then grounded out to go 0-5. But everyone else did great and the Yankees beat the Giants 7-0 on the season’s opening day on a beautiful, […]