- Exciting his fans and somewhat blunting his critics, newly re-signed outfielder Brett Gardner hit a grand slam home run in the second inning of a 4-0 win over Philadelphia on March 6, 2021. Worthy of note, the home-standing Yanks wore their Pinstriped unis, something they had only done in the ST opener previous to this season. Continue reading
March 6 in Yankee History
- When Babe Ruth signed a three-year deal on March 6, 1922, he more than tripled the yearly salary of teammate Frank “Home Run” Baker, the second-highest on the team. But it was only fair. He had outhomered him in 1921 by better than 7-to-1; The Babe hit 59 to Baker’s eight. Continue reading
March 5 in Yankee History
- In an underattended 2021 Spring Training game in Tampa on March 5, the Yanks almost beat visiting Detroit on Gleyber Torres‘s fourth-inning home run, but the Tigers tied in the eighth, a frame in which righty Addison Russ walked four guys and delivered a wild pitch as well, for a 1-1 final. Continue reading
March 4 in Yankee History
- The Yankees bunched four singles into a three-run first inning that was barely enough to hold off the visiting Phillies 3-2 on March 4, 2020. A guy in Yankee camp in 2021, veteran outfielder Jay Bruce, plated both Philly runs with a two-run home run in the top of the sixth. Ex-Yankee infielder Ronald Torreyes stroked two of the five hits the Phillies scratched that evening. Continue reading
March 3 in Yankee History
- Giving credit where it is due, real-life power threat and catcher Joey Bart drilled a game-tying three-run home run in the third inning of the Yanks’ 12-3 destruction of visiting Pittsburgh on March 3, 2025. True, the ensuing Yankee five-run explosion in the sixth was largely the product of four walks and a couple of singles given up by young Pirate bullpenners, but it was exciting that New York was able to pile on three more runs in the home eighth on home runs by free agent Andrew Velazquez (“squid”) and by George Lombard, Jr. Continue reading
March 2 in Yankee History
- A band of visiting Yankees were battered by the Braves on March 2, 2025. Marcus Stroman was reached for four runs in three innings, and a five-run seventh cemented the 11-1 final. Alexander Vargas delivered the only Yankee run with a sac fly in the top of the seventh. Continue reading
March 1 in Yankee History
- Lots of good to talk about in the March 1, 2025, 9-3 win against visiting Houston at GMS Field, starting with the 2-1/3-inning start from a Cam Schlitter few of us recognized. Three walks and a single cost him a run in the third. But Aaron Judge drove in two in a three-run third, and Ben Rice homered in the fourth. A five-run seventh sent the cheating ‘stros to their bus as we celebrated. Continue reading
February 28 in Yankee History
- Singeton jacks from Austin Wells and Cody Bellinger put the Yanks up in Tampa hosting the Blue Jays on February 28, 2025, in an eventual 6-3 win. Staff ace Gerrit Cole looked strong going 3-1/3 with five strike outs, but a 16-pitch, two-double, one-run top of the third appeared to wear him out, a sign we were worried to see (a fear that would come back to bite). Jesus Rodriguez accounted for the final score with a two-run double in the home seventh. Continue reading
February 27 in Yankee History
- On a glorious day in Clearwater, Florida, on February 27, 2025, Yankees young and old played with our heart strings through three-plus hours resulting in a 7-7 tie with the home-standing Phillies. Anthony Volpe tied matters at 2-2 in the top of the third with a two-run jack to left center, but middle relief faltered, and they stumbled into the eighth down 6-3. Then young infielder Alexander Vargas capped a four-run outburst with a three-run jack. But young righty Cole Zaffiro let loose with a one-out hit by pitch in the bottom of the ninth, and followed with three straight walks to tie the game. Agony. Ecstasy. Ugh. Continue reading
An Auspicious Night
Tampa, Fla., February 25, 2026; Yankees 7, Nationals 0 — It is perhaps a bit ironic to wax poetic about southpaw Ryan Weathers’ Spring Training debut pitching for the Yankees in a 7-0 shutout of the visiting Washington Nationals Wednesday evening, the first night game of this year’s Spring campaign. Pitch well, he did. The numbers were impressive. But he was just the first of six pitchers who not only blanked the visitors, but held them to just one hit. The identity of the hurler who allowed that one safety? Ryan Weathers. Continue reading