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Bronx, N.Y., July 31, 2011 – Well, OK, I suppose we Yankee fans were being silly and presumptuous, expecting massive scoring breakouts after the thunderous double header sweep over the Orioles on Saturday. But on the other hand, who could blame us? After all, the unprecedented 12-run first-inning outburst Saturday night may have featured 10 hits, but even it started with a strike out of Captain Derek Jeter. Continue reading Something Had to Give
Bronx, N.Y., July 30, 2011 – Ivan Nova’s called-strike, first-pitch fastball to Nolan Reimold to start the second inning of the nightcap half of the Orioles/Yankees day/night doubelheader in the Bronx on Saturday whispered over the outside corner at 8:08 p.m. This is significant because the young righty had started the first inning against shortstop J.J. Hardy in the same way – with a first-pitch fastball called strike – 61 minutes earlier. The 12-run explosion that all but decided game two of the double dip wasn’t only significant because it was the most run-productive opening inning in Yankee history. It also took one hour and one minute to complete. Continue reading Blistering Heights
The Yankees greeted old friend Jose Contreras back to the Bronx on July 31, 2007, and battered him for eight quick runs on Bobby Abreu, Hideki Matsui, and Robbie Cano home runs in a 16-3 win over the White Sox. Matsui would add a second tater in the sixth, and Melky Cabrera, Jorge Posada, Johnny Damon and Shelley Duncan would go yard as well. Continue reading July 31 in Yankee History
Chuck Knoblauch led the way with five hits, including a double and a home run, as the Yanks overwhelmed the Red Sox 13-3 on July 30, 1999. Continue reading July 30 in Yankee History
It was Old Timers Day in the Bronx on July 29, 1978, when the Yanks made the surprise announcement: Billy Martin would return to manage the Yankees in 1980. Then the Bombers went out and beat the Twins 7-3 with Ken Clay besting Darrell Jackson. The save went to Goose Gossage. Continue reading July 29 in Yankee History
On July 28, 2006, New York’s Chien-Ming Wang had perhaps his most dominant start yet, at least until he would flirt with a Perfect Game in 2007. He retired the Devil Rays on just 103 pitches through nine in a 6-0 win in Yankee Stadium in a game where he coaxed 18 ground ball outs and allowed just two singles and two walks. Derek Jeter had two hits, two rbi’s, and scored once, and Bernie Williams capped the scoring with a sixth-inning home run to dead center. Continue reading July 28 in Yankee History
Bronx, N.Y., July 26, 2011 – The first game of the Yankees’ second century of 2011 games will be a hard one to top for in-the-ballpark excitement, and that holds true even though the game was twice interrupted by rain, one day after the 100th game was delayed by wet conditions for two hours. The Yankees’ home run tandem of Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira opened and closed the scoring in a 4-1 Yankee win with blasts that carried just far enough to count, and CC Sabathia flirted with history. Continue reading CC Uno’s the M’s
It is amazing that the Yanks benefitted so long from the input of recent pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, who attended spring training and offered guidance to Ron Guidry in 2006, and Yankee Vice President Gene “Stick” Michael. Those two vets collaborated on a 5-2 win over the Angels way back on July 27, 1970. Mel held on during a 2-2 tie that was finally broken by the Yanks in the 10th, and Stick helped get him there by pulling the Hidden Ball Trick on pinch runner Jarvis Tatum in the ninth. Continue reading July 27 in Yankee History
Bronx, N.Y., July 25, 2011 – Another day, another big-time performance by a veteran Yankee pitcher. Monday night it was Freddy Garcia, following Bartolo Colon’s seven-inning, two-run stint by going two outs further and allowing one more run, although Freddy held the Mariners to just three hits and one run through six. Each hurler allowed but one walk, and Garcia bested Bart’s four strike outs by one. Continue reading The Bart and Freddy Show
July 26 was another big day for Johnny Blanchard in 1961, just one more guy on that team who had a magical year. It’s the year that indelibly glued the boy in me to the Yanks, but sometimes I think the man in me now would not only have enjoyed that season, but would have appreciated what he was seeing far more. When Blanchard homered in his first two at bats against the White Sox that day, it brought his tater total to four in a five-at-bat period over three days. The Yanks went yard four times in a 5-2 win, including a Mickey Mantle shot back-to-back behind Johnny’s in the first. Blanchard became the first player ever to hit more than 20 homers in a season of less than 250 at bats (21/243) that year. Continue reading July 26 in Yankee History
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