'It Hurts': Yankees Miss Playoffs For 2nd Time In 19 Years
Despite baseball's highest opening-day payroll at $230 million, the Yankees failed to claim one of the 10 playoff berths. "It hurts," manager Joe Girardi said after it was over.
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Despite baseball's highest opening-day payroll at $230 million, the Yankees failed to claim one of the 10 playoff berths. "It hurts," manager Joe Girardi said after it was over.
On Wednesday, we looked at two of the most emotional nights at the old Yankee Stadium. Today we take a look at memories made in the first year of New York's current baseball stadiums.
A victory by the Cleveland Indians Wednesday night eliminated the mathematical possibility of the Yankees securing a playoff berth.
For the first time since 2008, the Yankees are officially eliminated from the playoff picture, which means it's time to start looking ahead.
The Yankees have invited ticketholders who suffered through the Mariano Rivera bobblehead fiasco Tuesday night for free admission to a game during the 2014 regular season.
Thousands of Yankees fans were angered Tuesday night when a late shipment of Mariano Rivera bobbleheads led to confusion and long, long lines to redeem vouchers for the tardy giveaway.
It's been an extremely frustrating season for the 2007 AL Cy Young Award winner, one that ended a week early when he sustained a Grade 2 left hamstring strain.
"Being able to throw the last pitch in that stadium ... it was good, it was good," Rivera tells WFAN's Sweeny Murti.
The Yankees wasted several opportunities against the wild Matt Moore in a 7-0 loss to Tampa Bay on Tuesday night that pushed them to the brink of missing out on the postseason for the second time in 19 years.
Matt Moore had New York flailing for five wild innings, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Yankees 7-0 on Tuesday night.
Some Yankees fans were looking forward to receiving bobbleheads depicting retiring pitcher Mariano Rivera Tuesday, only to find that the shipment did not come in.
Haters have waited a decade for the day to come, when the money, the love, and the luck run dry on the Yankees. The rest have wrestled with the pristine precedent, whether this is finally 1965 redux.
Looking ahead with the realization that Rivera and Pettitte will be gone, that other key players are well past their primes and that the team will be mired in medical and/or legal issues, it brings a certain amount of trepidation for Bombers fans.
"Sometimes your best is not enough," Rivera told WFAN's Sweeny Murti of the 2001 World Series. "And that's what I took from that. It wasn't (meant) for us."
It ain't over 'til it's over. With their playoff hopes on life support, the Yankees will wrap up the season's final homestand with a three-game set against the Rays.
