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Giancarlo Stanton hit a 3-run homer in the bottom of the 1st, Aaron Judge hit a homer in the bottom of the 2nd, and Nestor Cortes Jr on short rest pitched 5 strong innings to […]

Gerrit Cole got redemption again. Pitched like an Ace. Was given the lead in a do-or-die game 4 and never relinquished it, carrying the Yanks to the 4-2 win, forcing a deciding game 5 at […]

The Yankees were one strike away from a win. But Oscar Gonzalez slapped a 1-2 slider from Clarke Schmidt into centerfield for the game-tying and walk-off-game-winning hit in Cleveland’s 6-5 victory. NY entered the 9th […]

Giancarlo Stanton hit a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 1st inning, and then the Yankees seemed to lose in slow motion — 9 innings and 5 hours later Cleveland scored 2 in the […]

Gerrit Cole ‘threw down’. He ‘pushed’. He pitched 1-run ball into the 7th inning to carry the Yankees to a 4-1 victory over Cleveland in Game 1 of the ALDS. He quieted all the naysayers, […]

John Sterling kept saying on the radio the last few days that he wanted to see the Yankees win 100 games; and most Yankee fans were rooting for it as well. But apparently the Yankee […]

Aaron Judge hit a BOMB to left on the 3rd pitch of the ballgame for his 62nd homer of the season, breaking Roger Maris‘ record and becoming the All Time single-season Homerun King in the […]

Oswald Peraza hit his first major league homer, and Oswaldo Cabrera and Kyle Higashioka added bombs to carry NY to the 5-4 victory. Everyone it seemed but Aaron Judge — who went 1 for 5 […]

Luis Severino overshadowed the Aaron Judge pursuit of homer #62 by throwing a no hitter into the 8th inning, when he was relieved due to pitch count. Severino was at only 94 pitches thrown but […]

It seemed certain the game would be rained out — with remnants of Hurricane Ian hitting NYC and rain expected all day. But it cleared momentarily before the game and they played — in the […]