The first 10 Yankees to come to bat in the home third vs the visiting Padres on May 28, 2023, either reached or made outs to score others in a seven-run frame. Kyle Higashioka doubled twice in the inning, and Willie Calhoun once. San Diego scored four times late to narrow the final to 10-7. Continue reading →
On May 27, 2019, Memorial Day, with all of baseball poised to halt the games for a moment of remembrance at 3 pm, the Yankees prevailed over the Padres 5-2. Opener Chad Green combined with “starter” David Hale to strike out the first four, until San Diego scored two off Hale in the second. But New York went up 3-2 almost right away on home runs by Clint Frazier and Brett Gardner in the bottom half. It stayed that way until Adam Ottavino retired DH Josh Naylor on a ground ball to second for out No. two in the top of the sixth, and the “moment” arrived. The Bombers added two in the eighth on a Gary Sanchez home run and a Gleyber Torres double. Continue reading →
It will come as little surprise to any 2024 Yankee fan who broke up a scoreless duel in Yankee Sradium on May 26, 2023, between the Yankees and the Padres. A two-run home run by Juan Soto in the fifth was shortly joined by another blast for two in the sixth by Fernando Tatis, Jr. in the 5-1 final. Continue reading →
Young lefty prospect JP Sears, recalled from AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this day, and who has since been traded to Oakland, got his second win for the Yankees in a 2-0 victory over visiting Baltimore on May 25, 2022. JP’s five innings were enough for the win, as fourth-inning singles by Aaron Judge, Gleyber Torres, and Miguel Andujar plated one, and another scored on a catcher’s throwing error during the next at bat. Continue reading →
Playing for visiting Baltimore, ex-pinstriper Rougned Odor came back to haunt the Yankees in a May 24, 2022, game, as his three-run, seventh-inning home run wiped out a lead the Yanks had held all day since Anthony Rizzo homered in the first. But a Gleyber Torres home run and Jose Trevino rbi single tied things at 5-5. The Orioles were able to push across a run in the 11th, but rbi hits from Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Trevino, again, plated two in the bottom of the frame, for a 7-6 Yankee win. Continue reading →
Rookie Luis Gil was dominant again in a 5-0 win over Seattle in the Stadium on May 23, 2024. He surrendered just one hit and two walks with eight strike outs into the seventh inning. Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge home runs in the second and third frames respectively were plenty, but the team tacked on a three spot in the seventh. Continue reading →
Two home runs by Juan Soto, and one each from Aaron Judge and Alex Verdugo accounted for all the Yankee scoring in a 7-3 home win against Seattle on May 22, 2024. Nestor Cortes went five for the win. Continue reading →
It’s probably clueless to refer to a post about the May 21, 2021, 2-1 Yankee victory over the White Sox “Gleyber Day,” in light of what transpired in the ninth inning, but Gleyber Torres did drive in both runs, with a seventh-inning home run, and the third of three consecutive singles in the bottom of the ninth. It may have been Jordan Montgomery‘s best start, as he struck out 11 while allowing four hits over seven innings, but Nick Madrigal‘s eighth-inning rbi single off Jonathan Loiasiga cost him the win. The final was almost anticlimactic and felt preordained, once the Yanks finished off the top of the ninth behind Aroldis Chapman with a 5-4-3 triple play off the bat of Andrew Vaughn. Continue reading →
Filling in for the ineffective and injured Chien-Ming Wang, young righthander Phil Hughes got the win when the team battered Baltimore in the Bronx 11-4 on May 20, 2009. Another tradition survived the trip across 161st Street as all the predominantly white uniforms in the stands confirmed it was Fleet Week in New York. The big bat belonged to Robinson Cano, who had three hits with a homer, knocked in three runs, and scored two himself. Continue reading →
This is a baseball history column, and more specifically one focused on Yankee history. But being a Yankee is about excelling, so I need to start the May 19 installment with an acknowledgement of the record-smashing Belmont Stakes run by the thoroughbred Secretariat on this day in 1973, some 40 years ago. It was an astounding performance. Continue reading →
