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New Yankee Ace Max Fried threw 7 innings of 5-hit, shutout ball, striking out 11 and walking none, to outduel Jack Flaherty and beat the Tigers 4-3 on a Freezing Wednesday afternoon in Detroit — […]

Game-time temperature was 30 degrees but the ‘real’ temperature (aka formerly ‘wind chill’) made it feel like 20 degrees, said Suzyn Waldman on the broadcast as the game started at 1pm in Detroit on a […]

In a game that featured occasional torrents of snow flurries in between the sun breaking out in 30-degree temps, the Yanks got snowed by the snow, Casey Mize, and the Tiger bullpen, losing 6-2 on […]

The Yanks overcame being “Heaney-ed” — shut down for 7 innings by off-speed master and old friend Andrew Heaney — and scored 3 runs after 2 were out in the 9th inning to tie the […]

According to AI, “10-4 good buddy” is “a phrase used in CB radio and trucker culture meaning ‘message received’ or ‘understood’, often used as a friendly acknowledgement.” If you lived in the 1970’s, or saw […]

Aaron Judge and the bottom half of the Yankee lineup FLOGGED the Pirates on a cold, late afternoon into Friday evening in Pittsburgh, 9-4. Judge hit a 2-run homer in the 7th — his 6th […]

Aaron Judge hit a 3-run BLAST in the 1st inning, knocked in a run with an RBI single in the 4th, and went 3-5 with 4 RBI’s to lead the Yanks to a 9-7 win […]

Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” sang out over the loudspeakers as the Yanks lost their 2nd game of the year and 2nd in a row at Yankee Stadium — 4-3 to Arizona on a cold Tuesday […]

Mark Leiter Jr. was 1 pitch away from getting out of a bases-loaded, 2 outs jam in the 8th inning — NY up 4-3 — but threw a 2-2 splitter to Eugenio Suarez and he […]

The Yankee Torpedo bats were all the rage on Twitter after the Yanks blasted the Brewers again, 12-3 on a cool and overcast Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Aaron Judge — using a standard bat […]