Alex Rodriguez Returns From DL, Mark Teixeira Out For Yankees
Just as one aging slugger gets ready to return to the New York Yankees, they're concerned about the health of another.
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Just as one aging slugger gets ready to return to the New York Yankees, they're concerned about the health of another.
Even despite Wednesday night's 8-4 loss to the Blue Jays, the Bronx Bombers have proven in recent weeks they are anything but the disgrace many were chalking them up to be.
Derek Jeter says he not only wants to someday own a major league team, he also wants to help increase the sport's popularity.
Before Dwight Gooden got his cinematic shot at redemption, Darryl Strawberry paved the way for a Big Apple redux.
Before becoming the president of the Toronto Blue Jays last fall, Mark Shapiro spent nearly two decades with the Cleveland Indians, helping build American League pennant winners in 1995 and 1997.
The Bronx Bombers enter Wednesday's game against Toronto on a six-game winning streak, and after a dreadful start to the season have climbed to .500.
Sidelined since straining his right hamstring on May 3, Alex Rodriguez was 2 for 4 for the Thunder in a 3-2, 11-inning win over New Hampshire on Tuesday night.
In his last five games, Beltran is batting .455 with a home run and eight RBIs.
The Bombers have done just fine without Rodriguez, going 13-6 since he went down with his injury back on May 3.
The Yankees may be surging, but they are still hovering around their mean, which will mean another forlorn fall in the Bronx.
Jacoby Ellsbury has been criticized for not living up to his end of the deal. Of late, however, he's looked a lot more like the player the Yankees thought they were getting a few years back.
The 14-time All-Star was eligible to come off the DL on Thursday, but the Yankees opted to give him additional time for rehab.
Michael Pineda won for the first time since his opening start this season, Starlin Castro hit a tiebreaking, two-out single in the sixth inning and the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 to extend a winning streak to five for the first time in nearly a year.
Masahiro Tanaka pitched seven effective innings and the New York Yankees scored four times in the top of the fourth inning in a 5-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Saturday afternoon at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi is still undecided whether or not to send Ivan Nova back to the bullpen once the rest of the starting rotation gets healthy. The way Nova has pitched as a starter, it's going to be a tough call either way.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Steinbrenner backed Girardi and general manager Brian Cashman but blamed the players for the team's poor start.
There was always an aura about Derek Jeter, and it was no surprise when the New York Yankees used the No. 6 pick in the 1992 first-year player draft to select him.
Rex Hudler is known throughout baseball as one of the game's most colorful characters. He spoke recently about baseball with WFAN's Sweeny Murti.
Hal Steinbrenner had just started his quarterly State of the Yankees session when he asked to switch places with reporters and stood near the side of the lobby at Major League Baseball's headquarters.
Nathan Eovaldi doesn't consider himself an ace just yet. He sure pitched like one Wednesday night, though.
Francesa said the Mets' Noah Syndergaard was "tremendous" in his duel against the Nationals' Max Scherzer.
Zack Greinke struck out seven and pitched effectively into the eighth, helping the Diamondbacks clinch their first regular-season series over the Yankees with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night.
The New York Yankees have recalled infielder Rob Refsnyder from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and optioned Chad Green after the right-hander struggled in his major league debut.
The Yankees will bolster their roster this week with the return of Alex Rodriguez and CC Sabathia from the disabled list.
Jake Lamb was a triple shy of the cycle, and Arizona had 15 hits in a 12-2 win over the visiting Yankees on Monday night.
