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Carlos Rodon and the Bronx Bombers picked up Gerrit Cole after The Plan failed the day before, the Red Sox having won 7-1 after being fired up by an intentional walk to Rafael Devers (and […]

The Yankees were leading 1-0 and Gerrit Cole was pitching a no-hitter until the top of the 4th inning, when with 1 out, Cole put up 4 fingers to the ump to call for the […]

The Yanks were down 4-0 in the 7th inning when they staged an amazing rally capped by an Aaron Judge GRAND SLAM to put them ahead 5-4! Then Luke Weaver finished the job with 2 […]

Juan Soto ripped a single to left center to score pinch-runner Jon Burdi from 2nd in the bottom of the 10th to give the Yankees their second straight walk-off win, this one over the Boston […]

What a win! The Yankees overcame terrific Kansas City pitching and came from behind twice to beat the Royals in 11 innings at Yankee Stadium on a Beautiful, 70-degree September 11th Wednesday night — playoff […]

Once upon a time the Mets had Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler, Steven Matz, and Marcus Stroman in the same rotation, with Seth Lugo in long relief out of the bullpen. All were homegrown […]

Aaron Judge got a clutch RBI single in the 7th to tie the game 4-4, and Austin Wells followed with a MAMOTH BOMB into the bleachers in right to put NY up 7-4, en route […]

Everybody wished Gerrit Cole a Happy 34th Birthday, and then they all went out and ruined it on him. Gleyber Torres made a key error in the 1st inning to cause the only 2 runs […]

Clarke Schmidt was back from a 3-month absence due to a lat strain, and looked as good as ever, throwing a shutout for 4.2 innings — and then the Yankees threw the Cubs a curveball, […]

Luis Gil was back with a BANG from a 2-week absence due to a back strain — firing 6 shutout innings as he and the Yankee pen combined for a 1-hit shutout. Jake Cousins and […]