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 →
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 →
