Could Aaron Judge of the Yankees find himself in the same boat as Kyrie Irving
As CBS2's Otis Livingston reports, Judge has some big question marks surrounding him as he gets ready for opening day.
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As CBS2's Otis Livingston reports, Judge has some big question marks surrounding him as he gets ready for opening day.
Negotiations lasted for an hour Saturday when Major League Baseball made a new proposal that lawyers for locked-out players thought had only minor movement.
Balkovec's road to manager was not an easy one. It started nine years ago with a clear-cut case of discrimination.
The 34-year-old Balkovec joined the Yankees organization as a minor league hitting coach in 2019.
Boone, a third-generation major leaguer who hit a pennant-winning home run for the Yankees in 2003, led the team to a 328-218 record and four postseason appearances but just one AL East title.
Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and the Boston Red Sox beat New York 6-2 Tuesday night in the AL wild-card game.
After a season of surges and setbacks, the New York Yankees are set to find out who they really are in the postseason.
With a chance to pitch his team into the postseason, Yankees starter Jordan Montgomery instead was rocked for a career-worst seven earned runs in 2 2/3 innings.
The Yankees are two games ahead of Boston and idle Seattle, both 89-70, after the Red Sox lost to last-place Baltimore 6-2 earlier Thursday.
Boston closed within one game of the wild card-leading Yankees after winning 6-0 at Baltimore, and Toronto is one game back of the Red Sox.
The Yankees, who arrived in Boston trailing the Red Sox by two games, leave it with a one-game lead in the race to host the Oct. 5 AL wild-card game.
The Yankees, who began the day with a two-game lead over Toronto and Seattle for the second wild card, now have a chance to nudge in front of their longtime rivals in Sunday night's series finale.
Cole (16-8) no-hit the Red Sox for 3 2/3 innings and New York coasted to its fourth straight win.
The Yankees' wild-card chase takes them to Fenway Park for three games starting Friday night followed by three at Toronto and a season-ending three-game homestand against AL East-leading Tampa Bay.
After their biggest bats did plenty of damage, the New York Yankees auditioned a new bullpen weapon for the stretch drive: Luis Severino.
Gary Sánchez rebounded from poor defensive play with a go-ahead home run, four pitchers combined for scoreless relief and the New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Monday night.
Gerrit Cole stumbled when the New York Yankees needed an ace-like outing, allowing seven runs over 5 2/3 innings in a costly 11-1 defeat to the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.
New York has 13 games left and fell a a half-game behind Toronto for the second AL wild card. The Yankees dropped 1 1/2 games behind wild card-leading Boston.
With 14 games left, New York moved a half-game ahead of Toronto for the second AL wild card, a half-game behind Boston.
The Yankees fell a half-game behind idle Toronto and Boston atop the AL wild-card standings.
New York improved to 82-64 and clinched its 29th consecutive winning season, the second-longest streak in MLB history, behind its own 39-year run from 1926-64.
Aaron Judge started a five-homer barrage that backed Gerrit Cole, and the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2 Tuesday night to win consecutive games for the first time since Sept. 1 and 3.
Down five runs in the third inning with a rookie on the mound, the New York Yankees saw their season spiraling out of control.
Francisco Lindor broke an eighth-inning tie with his third homer, sending a drive whistling into the right-field seats, and the Mets beat the Yankees 7-6 on Sunday night.
The Yankees snapped a seven-game skid and ended a run of 11 losses in 13 games since a 13-game winning streak pushed them to the AL wild-card lead.
