August 10 in Yankee History

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  • The Yankees split two with Texas on August 10, 2024, winning the opener 8-0, and dropping the second 9-4. They won Game One behind early multiple rbi’s from Aaron Judge and Austin Wells and a late homer from Jazz Chisholm. A five-run sixth carried the Rangers in the night game, in which Giancarlo Stanton and Chisholm homered back to back. Continue reading →

    • August 9 in Yankee History

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    • The Old Timers Game on August 8, 2025, only went two innings, with the Bombers besting the Clippers 2-1, but the highlights were, first, that Bob Sheppard‘s voice got it all started, and that they played at all, not a given since the pandemic. In the game that followed, right fielder Giancarlo Stanton led the way with two rbi’s as they squeezed past Houston, 5-4. Continue reading →

    August 8 in Yankee History

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  • Deep-seated anger, if not hatred, for new closer Devin Williams became entrenched in the Yankee faithful in a 5-3, 10-inning loss to the visiting Astros on August 8, 2025. With the Yankees tying matters 2-2 on sixth-inning rbi’s from Ben Rice and Aaron Judge, the game went to extras with that score. With the hated Jose Altuve as the extra runner on second, Williams uncorked a wild pitch on his first throw, then gave up a single, ground out, and fly ball on which Amed Rosario was the hero, as he crashed into the left field wall making a catch. A five-minute injury break later, one-time (very briefly) Yankee Taylor Trammell homered on Williams’s second pitch for two more runs. The Yanks answered with one run, not nearly enough. Continue reading →

    • August 7 in Yankee History

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  • That Didi Gregorius homered for the second run on Didi Bobblehead Night, and that Masahiro Tanaka pitched the Yankees to a 3-2 win over Carlos Carrasco and the visiting Indians, should have made for more than enough drama, excitement, and “buzz” in the Bronx on August 7, 2016. But those stories all became subplots to what took place earlier that day, when Alex Rodriguez announced his retirement from the team as a player, though he would continue to be paid through the 2017 season. Continue reading →

    • August 6 in Yankee History

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  • It was August 6, 1979, in a night game after the funeral for Yankee catcher Thurman Munson that his teammate and friend Bobby Murcer drove in all five runs of a Yankee win. Murcer had a three-run homer and then chipped in with a two-run ninth-inning single to beat the Orioles, 5-4. The loss of Murcer in 2008 to cancer served to make Thurman’s death a poignant experience all over again. Continue reading →

    • August 5 in Yankee History

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  • Although Nestor Cortes only went four innings, on his first day after being activated from the 60-day IL, the entire Yankee staff gets kudos for the 3-1 victory over visiting Houston on August 5, 2023. One of the only two hits the cheaters struck was Jose Altuve‘s third-inning home run, but on the flip side, the head cheat did account for two of the 16 strike outs Houston suffered in the game. Home runs from Jake Bauers and Gleyber Torres accounted for two of the runs, and Anthony Volpe got the Yankee scoring started with a second-inning sac fly. Continue reading →

    • August 2 in Yankee History

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  • There can only be one piece of Yankee history leading off this day’s column, and it is heart-rending. It was on August 2, 1979, that the beloved father, husband, and Yankee captain and catcher Thurman Munson perished in a crash of the plane he was piloting. The Yankees would host a huge crowd in the Stadium on the day after the tragic event. In recent years, it was an inspiring moment when a host of Thurman’s teammates gathered with his widow on the Yankee Stadium field at the 2004 Old Timers Game. The whole tragic event is doubly poignant now with the recent death of Thurman’s great friend, Bobby Murcer. Continue reading →