The good news from the Yankee game hosting the Cubs on July 12, 2025, was that Aaron Judge hit his 350th career home run, a two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth. The bad news is that they were the only runs the team put up in a 5-2 loss to Chicago. Continue reading →
Fans throughout Yankee land were devastated on July 11, 2010, with the disheartening news none of us wanted to hear. The one and only Bob Sheppard, the “Voice of God,” who had served as Yankee Stadium emcee since Mickey Mantle‘s rookie season in 1951, had passed away. Mr. Sheppard, and all of us who loved him and craved hearing his voice so dearly, were bitterly disappointed that he was not healthy enough to appear in the old Stadium’s final season, although video messages from him during the Baseball Cathedral’s last game were a true treasure. We all hoped he would some day christen the new stadium with his voice as well, but that was not to be. It was the beginning of a very bad week in Yankee land. Continue reading →
The Seattle/New York battle in the Stadium on July 10, 2025, seemed one the Yankees were fated to lose, as they came to the plate in the home eighth down 5-0. Marcus Stroman didn’t pitch badly, leaving behind 2-0 after five, but things turned around when the pinch-hitting Giancarlo Stanton homered for three in the eighth, and Austin Wells delivered a two-run, two-out single in the bottom of the ninth. Aaron Judge sent us home happy with a sac fly in the bottom of the 10th. Continue reading →
Hit No. 2,999, a single to left, led off the bottom of the first, and history came two innings later as Derek Jeter powered David Price‘s seventh pitch over the wall in left center for a 2-2 tie in the game, and history, the Yankee Captain’s 3000th career hit. Amazingly, once he scored after his fifth-inning double (No. 3,001), he tied the score again. Although it was followed by a double steal, hit No. 3,002, a sixth-inning single, went for naught, but when he went 5-for-5 on this record-setting day with a single (No. 3,003) in the eighth, he drove in the winning run in a 5-4 Yankee victory over Tampa Bay on July 9, 2011. Continue reading →
At first glance, one might think that Will Warren had an easy night in a 10-3 win over visiting Seattle on July 8, 2025, but when he left the game with two down in the sixth, the Yankees had but a 1-0 lead on an Oswald Peraza RBI single in the fifth. But home runs from Giancarlo Stanton, Austin Wells, and Aaron Judge highlighted a five- and then four-run rally in the sixth and seventh. Continue reading →
Coming from behind, beating the Red Sox, and the exploits of Mickey Mantle are three of my favorite things in baseball, so you know I’m delighted to report that the team went to the bottom of the ninth in a July 7, 1966, game vs. Boston losing 2-0; that the Yanks managed to tie them with two outs; and then that The Mick broke a 1-for-17 slump by blasting a three-run walk-off home run. Continue reading →
With Anthony Rizzo sidelined with injury and ineffectiveness much of the year, Ben Rice, primarily a catching prospect, was pressed into service at first base in a game hosting Boston on July 6, 2024. Fans were delighted when he homered to start the home first, but by the time Ben came to bat in the fifth, the Yankees were in the midst of a seven-run inning which Rice capped with a three-run bomb. And he added an additional three-run home run in the seventh of a 14-4 Yankee win. Not a bad day. Continue reading →
The inside-the-park homer, a grand slam, that Lou Gehrig hit on July 5, 1934, was the big blow in the Yanks’ 8-3 win over the Senators. It was the 17th of the Iron Horse’s career-record 23 grand slams, a record that would not be matched for more than 70 years, until Alex Rodriguez tied it in 2012. Continue reading →
“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” More recent achievements on the Yankees field of battle notwithstanding, the day in 1939 that Lou Gehrig addressed a full house in the Baseball Cathedral, and became the first ballplayer to have his number (No. 4) retired, will always be the biggest moment in July 4 Yankee baseball history. It is a rarely reported side note that on the day the Yanks split two games, falling 3-2, but rebounding strongly to blast Washington 11-1 in the nightcap. Continue reading →
Fans expected an explosive night after the game in which the Yankees hosted the Orioles on July 3, 2023, as it had been billed as Fireworks Night. And the postgame display was epic. But they also had to wait a bit for lightning to strike on the field too, as five of the team’s runs scored in the 6-3 win came via back-to-back singleton homers by Anthony Volpe and Kyle Higashioka in the fifth, and Harrison Bader‘s three-run jolt in the eighth. Continue reading →
