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Don’t be fooled by the 11-2 final score the Yanks posted over the Indians in Yankee Stadium on May 31, 2010; this was a nail biter. Andy Pettitte had a 2-1 lead over Mitch Talbot until the Yanks ended all drama with a six-run seventh, and three-run eighth. Alex Rodriguez had six rbi’s on a grand slam, double, and single, and Robinson Cano drove in three, with Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira, and Nick Swisher scoring two runs each.
It was difficult for Yankee fans in the early to mid-70’s to believe that the team was finally emerging from the last-place and then non-contending doldrums it had entered in the latter half of the sixties, until they saw some encouraging “signs,” as in the signing of free agent Catfish Hunter. Jim one-hit the Texas Rangers and the Yankees prevailed 6-0 on May 31, 1975, with Cesar Tovar getting the only Texas safety. Continue reading May 31 in Yankee History
All good things come to an end. On May 30, 1967, the Chairman of the Board, Whitey Ford, called it a career. Continue reading May 30 in Yankee History
Watching AL play in early 2011, what befell the Yankees in the Stadium on May 29, 2010, isn’t so surprising, as the visiting Indians, despite having a bad year, battered the Bomber bullpen for a seven-run seventh inning in a 13-10 win. CC Sabathia handed a 10-5 lead over after six, much of it built on a six-run fourth inning by the Yanks on just three hits. But David Robertson and Damaso Marte had an evening neither will want to remember and the home team went down in defeat.
Andy Pettitte righted a listing Yankee ship and opened a three-gamer with the A’s in Yankee Stadium on Monday, May 29, Memorial Day of 2000, with a two-hit, 4-1 victory. Andy’s stellar performance and the game’s score softened the blow of the day’s big history moment, as ex-Yankee Randy Velarde turned in an unassisted triple play. Randy tagged Jorge Posada (on his way to second) for the second out, and stepped on second to retire Tino Martinez for the third, all after he had speared Shane Spencer’s liner up the middle for the inning’s and play’s first out. Continue reading May 29 in Yankee History
There are several ways to go in compiling May 28 highlights, but the ones that appeal to me the most this day have to do with “the usual suspects” (Yankee superstars whose exploits are recounted here often) in their latter years. On this day in 1934, Lou Gehrig hit two homers, the second back-to-back with Babe Ruth in the seventh inning in a 13-9 win over the St. Louis Browns. It was the last time the two megastars would go yard in consecutive at bats. Continue reading May 28 in Yankee History
The Yanks had taken the lead in the AL East from Baltimore on the first day of May in 1996, and they retained it the rest of the year. On May 27 they maintained a one-game edge over the O’s by pounding Anaheim, 16-5, with Bernie Williams getting five hits. Continue reading May 27 in Yankee History
The most memorable thing about the 4-1 Boston win over the Yanks at the Stadium on May 26, 2000, behind Pedro’s brother Ramon Martinez was not the Carl Everett single that plated two off David Cone in the first inning. At 8:10 pm, during a third-inning Wilson Delgado (subbing for Derek Jeter at short) at bat, a Tier Box fan blasted on rum fell onto the screen that stretches above field box fans sitting behind home plate. After a brief stoppage during which it was apparently determined that he was incapacitated but not hurt, play continued for another 10 pitches as Delgado flew out to left, and Paul O’Neill bounced to short. The fan was then removed between innings. Continue reading May 26 in Yankee History
Bronx, N.Y., May 25, 2011 – It was almost eerie how similarly Toronto lefty Jo-Jo Reyes and Freddy Garcia started their games in Yankee Stadium Wednesday afternoon. Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar pounced on Garcia’s not-too-fast fastball at 1:09, getting it by Andruw Jones in left center for a triple. And Derek Jeter doubled over Jose Bautista’s head on a 3-1 pitch to start the home first, crossing over to third with no one out on a wild pitch to Curtis Granderson. Continue reading Jeets and Mr. Jones
Bronx, N.Y., May 24, 2011 – The Yankees, CC Sabathia, and their fans got two for the price of one Tuesday night, a good night for it, as it was the warmest evening in New York in many a week. It was only Tuesday night, early in the week, but few fans despaired of the festivities despite the fact that Toronto seemingly took control of the game with a three-run fourth inning, and the Yankee offense responded with one ineffectual effort after another. Continue reading Offense a’ Changing
We start May 25 with a Mickey Mantle highlight, always a tasteful choice. On this day in 1966, Mickey went yard twice, off Dean Chance and then Lew Burdette, in an 11-6 mauling of the Angels. Continue reading May 25 in Yankee History
In a day packed with one historic Yankee highlight after another, we’ll lead off with a classic pitcher’s duel from the recent past. On May 24, 2001, Yankee Mike Mussina faced off against Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox in a day game at the Stadium. Boston grabbed a 1-0 lead on a Jose Offerman home run. But Bernie Williams tied it with one of his own in the fourth, and the Yanks prevailed 2-1 when Scott Brosius and Paul O’Neill fifth-inning singles sandwiched around a Chuck Knoblauch walk plated the winner. Continue reading May 24 in Yankee History
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