Although Anthony Rizzo was the hands-down star of the 2-1 Yankees win over visiting Tampa on June 16, 2022, the team got a pretty big boost from backstop Jose Trevino as well. Rizzo knocked in both runs, first with a sixth-inning single, but more dramatically with a walkoff home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth. Trevino’s assist came when he threw out Harold Ramirez trying to steal just before Francisco Mejia‘s home run in the fifth. Continue reading →
The Yankees raced out to a 4-0 lead over visiting Tampa through five innings on Aaron Judge and Kyle Higashioka home runs on June 15, 2022, then held on for a 4-3 win. Continue reading →
Yankee fans had a nice game-long celebration on Sunday, June 14, 2009, when the Bombers recorded an unexpectedly easy 15-0 rout of Johan Santana and the Mets in the Bronx to take the first half of crosstown interleague two games to one (it would grow to five to one in weeks). Although he didn’t need to be, A.J. Burnett was superb, Derek Jeter had three hits, two rbi’s and two runs scored, and Johnny Damon and Robbie Cano drove in three runs apiece. And for a boost, Francisco Cervelli had three hits, an rbi and two runs scored as well. Continue reading →
We could feature the 1-0 loss that A.J. Burnett (five hits, eight strike outs, one run, in eight) and the Yankees suffered at the hands of young Carlos Carrasco and the Indians in Yankee Stadium on June 13, 2011, in light of its haunting familiarity to some offensive woes the 2012 team had. Not ony did the Yanks fail to score with the bases loaded and nobody out in the first, no Yankee crossed home plate in the second either once the first two batters reached. But the greater significance of this game, really, was the sore right calf that sent Derek Jeter to the disabled list after it, just a few hits short of the magical 3,000-hits mark. Continue reading →
Playing the worst of hosts, the Yankees blasted the Cubs out of the Stadium 18-4 on June 12, 2022. Both Chris Carpenter and Kyle Higashioka homered twice on the day, the former for five rbi’s, and Isiah Kiner-Filefa drove in three as well. Continue reading →
Nine hours and 20 minutes in the Bronx on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, went swimmingly through a 12-5 Yankee win over the Mets in the first half of a day/night doubleheader, and the Hot Pastrami sandwich at the Court Deli in between games, but went downhill with the 10-4 Mets victory in the nightcap. Masahiro Tanaka pitched through a four-run misstep featuring a Jeff McNeil home run in the third inning of the opener, as Luke Voit and Gary Sanchez each went yard and drove in three, but Gio Urshela wielded the biggest bat, knocking in four runs with a home run, single, and double. But James Paxton was reached for a three-run Pete Alonso bomb in the first and three rbi singles in the third of Game Two. Continue reading →
For a few thousand season ticket holders, June 10, 2017, was already a great day in the Bronx, as they got to meet, speak, and take selfies with their favorite players in pregame ceremonies on photo day, but it got better from there. The Yanks pounded Baltimore’s Chris Tillman for nine runs into the second while he recorded all of four outs. Early long balls from Aaron Judge, Didi Gregorius, and Starlin Castro got the carnage started, and Matt Holliday and Gary Sanchez homers sealed the 16-3 annihilation. If there was a sad hometown note, it was that the superb Luis Severino was wasted on a day where I may have been able to pitch the Bombers to a win. Continue reading →
The Yankees salvaged the last of three vs the visiting Dodgers 6-4 on June 9, 2024, thanks to a Trent Grisham three-run home run in the sixth. Teoscar Hernadez used his third homer of the series (along with a two-run, game-winning double in the first game) to give LA a brief lead before the Grisham shot, and Aaron Judge capped the scoring with an eighth-inning fence clearer of his own. Continue reading →
The 11-3 bashing at the hands of the visiting Dodgers in the Stadium on June 8, 2024, wasn’t as one-sided as it looks. A Teoscar Hernandez home run and Shohei Ohtani rbi were matched by an Aaron Judge homer and Austin Wells run-scoring ground out to a 2-2 tie through four. But Dennis Santana was reached for a Hernandez grand slam in the eighth, and Oswaldo Cabrera, filling in for a spent bullpen, allowed three more rune in the ninth. Continue reading →
A scoreless battle between much coveted Japanese hurler Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers and young Cody Poteet of the Yankees on June 7, 2024, extended into extra innings. But the two-run 11th-inning double by Teoscar Hernandez bettered the one Yankee run on an Aaron Judge single in the bottom half, as LA cashed in a 2-1 victory. Continue reading →
