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 →
A two-run homer from Trent Grisham and two-run double by Gleyber Torres led the Yankees to an 8-5 win over the Twins in the Stadium on June 6, 2024. Continue reading →
A two-run first-inning Gleyber Torres double and a three-run fifth-inning Aaron Judge triple did most of the damage in a June 5 , 2024, 9-1 win over visiting Minnesota. Carlos Rodon struck out nine in six strong innings for the win. Continue reading →
Eventual Rookie of the Year Luis Gil threw six scoreless frames in a 5-1 win over visiting Minnesota on June 4, 2024. The Yankee offense came via a Gleyber Torres solo home run in the second, a two-run Aaron Judge double in the third, and a Giancarlo Stanton two-run bomb in the eighth. Continue reading →
I would place this feat in third place to his incredible consecutive-games-played streak and the lofty rbi totals and hits totals he amassed: Lou Gehrig stroked four consecutive home runs in one game on June 3, 1932. The Yanks prevailed over the Athletics in a slugfest, 20-13, as Tony Lazzeri hit for the cycle as well. (That leaves the Iron Horse’s lead in career grand slams that stood for eight decades now fourth on his all-time performance numbers, by the way!) Continue reading →
June 2 is a sad day in Yankee land, as Lou Gehrig was lost to amyotropic lateral sclerosis, the condition that is more famously referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, on this day in 1941. But the Yankee organization did institute the first ever “Lou Gehrig Day” on this day in 2021, and the team responded with a 4-3 win over Tampa. Jordan Montgomery went six for the win, and Gio Urshela and Clint Frazier supplied the offense, driving in two apiece. Gio whacked a two-run homer in the first, while Clint, coming off an 11th-inning walkoff the previous day, singled for two in the fourth. Continue reading →
The first (historically and tradition-wise) of two huge June 1 Yankee days took place as Lou Gehrig pinch-hit for shortstop Paul Wanninger in 1925 in a 5-3 loss to the Senators. The next day Lou played first for Wally Pipp, making what was to become his record consecutive-games streak two games old. Continue reading →
Marvelous reclamation project and free agent Chris Carpenter got the Yanks off toward a 9-1 victory over visiting Baltimore with his second Bomber long ball, a two-run home run in the first inning on May 31, 2022. DJ LeMahieu and Jose Trevino also drove in two, the latter with an eight-inning bomb that capped the scoring. Continue reading →
Young Padres righthander Chris Paddock came into Yankee Stadium with some lofty numbers for the May 29, 2019, game, but DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit turned two of his first six pitches into home runs, and Gio Urshela went yard in the second. On the other side of things, it was disappointing that James Paxton pitched just four innings for the Yankees, but you wouldn’t know it from the final score, which was a 7-0 win by the good guys. Voit would triple in front of a two-run Gleyber Torres home run in the seventh, and Cameron Maybin stole a run in the sixth, following a single by purloining both second and third, then scoring on a throwing error on the latter. Continue reading →
