Category Archives: The Yankee Beat

The Yankee beat: A-Rod, Montero, and the rotation

The Yankees won their 6th in a row and 9 of their last 10 games and have maintained sole possession of 1st place in the AL East despite the Orioles winning their last 4 as they beat the Braves 3-2 to finish off the sweep Wednesday night. Here is tonight's recap and graph. Here is what ...

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The Yankee beat: Ethier, Swisher, and Dempster

The Yankees won a thrilling come-from-behind game against the Braves Tuesday night after Alex Rodriguez hit a grand slam to power a 6-run 8th inning en route to a 6-4 victory. Here is the recap and graph. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere was talking about today. Andre Ethier signed a new 5-year, $85 million extension to ...

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The Yankee beat: meeting Joe Girardi edition

The Yankees got 7, 1 hit innings out of Hiroki Kuroda tonight and back-to-back-to-back home runs from Robinson Cano, Nick Swisher, Andruw Jones for an easy 9-1 victory against the Mets. Here is the recap and graph. Before the game I had a chance to meet with both managers Joe Girardi and Terry Collins thanks to ...

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The Yankee beat: Garcia, Soriano, and Pettitte

It was a weird night tonight. CC Sabathia pitched well enough to get a quality start and strikeout 12, but it was 5-1 when he left the game. David Price wasn't exactly on, but the Yankees went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position as they lost 7-3. Here is the recap and graph. Don't forget to ...

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The Yankee beat: draft edition

What's going on around here? The Yankees got back to back amazing starts from Andy Pettitte and Ivan Nova. They are still half a game out, but their +33 is the best run differential in the AL East. It's like they are a good team or something. Here is the recap and graph. That's Ty ...

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The Yankee beat: Santana no-hitter edition

The Yankees actually got a good start from Hiroki Kuroda last night, but in typical 2012 fashion they went 1-for-12 w/RISP and lost 4-3 in Detroit on a 9th inning walk-off sac fly. Here is the recap. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere is talking about. Subway Squawkers celebrates Johan Santana's no-hitter against the Cardinals on Friday, ...

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The Yankee beat: RISP, Swisher, and 3rd base

Nova didn't have his best stuff, but the Yankees still managed to salvage the final game of the series against the Los Angeles California West Coast Angels of Anaheim with a 6-5 win thanks to homers by Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson. Here is the recap. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere has been discussing. NoMaas.org points ...

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The Yankee beat: bases loaded, Austin, and bad umpires

The Yankees got Angel'ed last night as Dan Haren got help from the umpires and some great defense to stifle their bats and Andy Pettitte got no help from Albert Pujols, who put an exclamation point on his only bad inning, en route to an easy 5-1 Angels victory. Here is the recap and graph. Here is what ...

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The Yankee beat: bullpen management, Logan, and DeJesus

Memorial Day weekend is over and I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things. Last night's Yankees game was a mess. Not only did Phil Hughes pitch like garbage, but Joe Girardi made it harder for the Yankees to win last night's game with at least three very questionable moves. Here is the recap ...

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The Yankee beat: A-Rod, Granderson, and Hughes

A rare, nice, easy win for the Yankees as both Andy Pettitte and Alex Rodriguez were in vintage form in an 8-3 win over the Royals. Tomorrow is an off-day and then they head to Oakland for the weekend. Not such a nice night for the minor league affiliates as all three in action lost ...

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