The Yankees battered the Bosox 10-3 in the Stadium on August 14, 2020, with plaudits aplenty to go around. Gerrit Cole allowed one run while going seven, Gleyber Torres went 4-for-4 with two runs scored and two rbi’s, Mike Tauchman knocked in four with three hits while scoring two, and Gary Sanchez homered for two. Continue reading →
If you took a pathway to Yankee and baseball fanhood similar to mine, then share my grief on this worst day on the baseball calendar. Mickey Mantle passed away on August 13, 1995. We’ll go into numbers and detail how incredibly bad a day on the Yankee front this is in that respect where we list player deaths below. Continue reading →
One highlight stands above all others on August 12 (with not such good news, after a few good items, to follow tomorrow). On this day in 1974, Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Continue reading →
The M&M race was heating up in 1961, and the daily record of Yankee excellence defines what Yankee history is all about. On August 11 of that glorious year, both Mickey Mantle (his 44th) and Roger Maris (42nd) homered off Pete Burnside to lead the Bombers to a 12-5 win over Washington. Continue reading →
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 →
July 28, 2018, was a win-win in Yankee Stadium, as J.A. Happ, activated that day and making his Yankee debut, struck out nine Rangers in six strong innings in a 7-3 win. The offense was doubly delightful, with two-run homers from Aaron Hicks and Miguel Andujar, and two singleton shots off the bat of Neil Walker. Continue reading →
In the middle of a three-game sweep of the pinstripers on August 8, 2015, the Blue Jays trotted out their newest acquisition, southpaw David Price — the addition to the team that sparked their late surge to the Division title — to the mound, and he did not disappoint, allowing three hits and no runs through seven in a 6-0 win. Sadly, Ivan Nova gamely matched him into the sixth when, with one down, he allowed a walk, single, walk, and Justin Smoak grand slam home run. Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
