Author Archives: Rob Abruzzese

Yankees split doubleheader in Cleveland

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Forgive the late update, I was enthralled by an exciting New York Rangers 5-0 victory. Henrik Lundqvist just pulled off back-to-back shutouts to beat the Washington Capitals. The Yankees played twice earlier in the day. They were shutout 1-0 in the first game and did the shutting out in the second game during a 7-0 win ...

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Yankees sweep the Royals in Kansas City

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The Royals are much improved this season, but the Yankees treated them like the same old Royals as they swept them in a three game weekend series in Kansas City and are now 10-games over .500 and in first place in the AL East. FRIDAY (11-6 win) Friday night's game was a wild one. The Yankees jumped ...

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Granderson poised to come off the DL, Nunez will go on, and Nova has a setback

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It never ends with the Yankees injuries this season. I feel like injuries are at least half of what I write about, but there is finally some good news -- Curtis Granderson is poised to come off the DL on Tuesday. Granderson, who admits that he is still not quite at 100 percent, is expected to ...

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Just as dumb as ever: Joba Chamberlain fights with Mariano Rivera

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Joba Chamberlain has done some dumb things while with the Yankees with his DUI and the time he broke his ankle on a trampoline being the dumbest. Unfortunately this latest incident, a very public run-in with Mariano Rivera, shows that Joba's not exactly getting any smarter with age. Yesterday, in front of reporters and fans, Joba ...

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Yankees endure rain to take the series from the Rockies

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The Yankees had to sit through a two-hour rain delay that knocked CC Sabathia out of the game, but they got a strong performance out of the bullpen and hung on to beat the Rockies 3-1 to take the three game series 2-1 in Colorado. The Yankees got a run in the first when Vernon Wells ...

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Vernon Wells wakes up to lead the Yankees to victory

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Vernon Wells had been slumping pretty bad lately, but he woke up on Wednesday night to lead the Yankees to a 3-2 victory over the Rockies in Colorado. The Yankees had just six hits during the game and Wells, who was just 10-for-48 (.208/.235/.271) going into this game, had three of those hits including a game tying ...

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Yankees lose 2-0 to the Rockies thanks to terrible lineup

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The Yankees had their best pitcher on the mound, but a lineup that featured Jayson Nix batting second and Ben Francisco batting fifth so it was no surprise that they lost 2-0 to the Rockies in Colorado Tuesday night. Kuroda did his part, 7 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, but ...

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When are the Yankees injured players coming back?

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Back in Spring Training, when the Yankees first had their run of injuries, which is now up to 11, it wasn't supposed to be until the middle of May when we would start to see some of these players return. Well, the middle of May is just a week away so when can we expect them ...

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Looking at how the Yankees have done position by position

Vernon+Wells

Entering the season a lot of people predicted doom and gloom, but here we are a little more than a month into the season and the plane has not crashed into the mountain even with 11 players on the DL. Things are going well for the Yankees, for the most part. They are six games over ...

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Yankees lose weekend series to Oakland Athletics

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In three close games, the Yankees dropped two out of three to the Athletics at Yankee Stadium over the weekend. FRIDAY (2-0 Loss) CC Sabathia held the Athletics to just two runs over six innings and Adam Warren pitched three shutout innings after that, but the Yankees offense was shutout for the second time this season. A.J. Griffin ...

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