Alex Rodriguez Placed On Disabled List With Hamstring Injury
A-Rod is batting just .194 this season, but he was hitting .368 with three home runs in his past six games.
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A-Rod is batting just .194 this season, but he was hitting .368 with three home runs in his past six games.
It's no secret that, with the way they've been playing lately, the Yankees need all the batting practice they can get.
Three players hitting over .250 and two of them are bench players. Nobody's hitting with runners in scoring position. The power guys are hitting a notch above the bottom third of all of baseball. And the record? Oy.
Baltimore's Chris Tillman tied a career high with nine strikeouts, Mark Trumbo homered twice and the Orioles beat New York 4-1.
It's been a rough start to the season for the New York Yankees to put it bluntly.
Mike Francesa got worked up Tuesday when a caller took him to task for defending Alex Rodriguez's play.
After being swept at Boston over the weekend, the Yankees are 8-15 and in last place in the American League East. New York has lost six of its last seven games.
The Yankees can't hit or pitch. Other than that, they look like eternal contenders. Hardly living up to their muscular handle, the 8-15 Bronx Bombers read like baseball carrion.
Christian Vazquez hit a two-run homer over the Green Monster to break a seventh-inning tie Sunday night, sending the Boston Red Sox to an 8-7 victory over the New York Yankees and a three-game sweep of their archrivals.
Rick Porcello tossed seven scoreless innings and struck out six, Mookie Betts and Jackie Bradley Jr. drove in three runs apiece and the Boston Red Sox routed the New York Yankees 8-0 on Saturday night at Fenway Park.
With the first Yankees-Red Sox series of the season set to begin Friday night up in Boston, Sweeny interviewed Aaron Boone for the latest installment of the "30 With Murti" podcast.
The Yankees have gotten off to a rough start, to say the least.
New York starter Luis Severino (0-3) remained winless after allowing six runs in three innings.
Nathan Eovaldi lost his no-hit bid in the seventh inning but pitched into the eighth for the New York Yankees without allowing a run in their series-opening 3-1 win at Texas.
Steven Souza Jr. homered twice, Drew Smyly pitched seven innings and the Tampa Bay Rays hit five home runs an 8-1 rout of the New York Yankees Sunday afternoon.
The team said Acevedo died Saturday night in the Dominican Republic. A moment of silence was held for him at Yankee Stadium before Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays, and a picture of Acevedo batting was shown on the giant video screen in center field.
Brett Gardner hit a solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 3-2 victory over Tampa Bay on Saturday, spoiling the impressive major league debut of Rays top pitching prospect Blake Snell.
Mike Francesa opened his show discussing the "perceptions" and "realities" of three of the city's teams.
When I stated last year that the Mets were better than the Yanks, I was vaporized as a closet Mets fan planted at WFAN/CBS by some secret cabal.
This week on "30 With Murti," Sweeny sits down Ray Fosse, former catcher and now broadcaster for the Oakland A's.
Rich Hill struck out 10 in six innings as the Athletics hit four home runs and completed a three-game sweep of the Yankees with a 7-3 victory.
Frustration has begun to settle in on the New York Yankees, manager Joe Girardi said Thursday.
The Bronx Bombers lost to the Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Wednesday night, their sixth defeat in the last seven games.
The Oakland Athletics scored three times in the top of the fourth inning en route to a 5-2 victory over the New York Yankees.
Five-time All-Star Bobby Murcer was a guest on Mike and the Mad Dog's show on June 16, 2003.
