Although DJ LeMahieu Gets props for having driven in both runs (with a hit-and-run single and a home run), the April 16, 2023 2-0 victory over visiting Minnesota on April 16, 2023, belongs solely to Yankee ace Gerrit Cole, who used 108 dominant pitches to turn in the 2-0 complete-game shutout. His eighth-inning strike out of Donovan Solano gave him 23 double-digit strike outs with the Yankees, tying him with Ron Guidry for that mark. Continue reading →
Home runs from Kyle Higashioka, Anthony Rizzo, and Giancarlo Stanton carried the offense in the Yankees’ 6-1 win over the visiting Twins on April 15, 2013, but the hero of this one was righthander Domingo German, who set down the first 16 Minnesota batters on his way to striking out 11 into one out in the seventh inning. Michael King retired eight of nine to finish up. Continue reading →
Manager Aaron Boone was “greeted” with some lusty “boo”s following a 4-3 loss to visiting Minnesota on April 14, 2023. Young righty Jhony Brito was masterful through seven innings, though that he was tiring could be seen by the solo home runs he allowed to the “hated” Carlos Correa and Kyle Garlick in the sixth and seventh. Still, up 3-2 on Anthony Volpe (batting leadoff this day) and Aaron Judge homers in the first, and a Giancarlo Stanton blast later, Boone brought in closer Clay Holmes early, in the eighth, and a double, single, and Correa double turned the tables, 4-3 Twins. Continue reading →
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.‘s third homer of the day carried the visiting Jays to a 6-4 victory over the Yankees in the Stadium on April 13, 2022. Back-to-back Anthony Rizzo and Aaron Judge home runs in the fifth were not enough to overcome Vlad’s big day. Continue reading →
The Yankees turned the tables on Toronto in the Stadium on April 12, 2022, shutting them out 4-0 after having fallen 3-0 the day before. Aaron Hicks‘s two-run second-inning homer was all the scoring they would need, and Giancarlo Stanton capped matters with a sac fly in eighth. Nestor Cortes pitched well, but left before five innings were complete, so Clay Holmes garnered the win. Continue reading →
On April 11, 1907, Roger Bresnahan became the first player to wear shin guards playing for the Giants in the Polo Grounds.
On April 11, 1912, the Yankees wore the pinstripes for the first time in the opener against the Red Sox at Hilltop Park. The locals (playing on the “Hilltop,” they were the “Highlanders”) took a 2-1 lead in the first against Smoky Joe Wood, but two of the four tallies Boston pushed across in the ninth scored on Wood’s single in the 5-3 New York loss. Continue reading →
The Yankees fell 5-2 to Miami in the Stadium on April 10, 2024, after Jake Burger (on his 28th birthday) crowned a four-run third inning with a three-run jack off Marcus Stroman. Both Yankee runs came late, from a Giancarlo Stanton home run and a Juan Soto rbi single. Continue reading →
There are plenty of Yankee- and baseball-related events to talk about that happened on April 9, including the death of a Hall of Famer. But the most significant item in this Yankee fan’s experience on that day occurred on 1996 Opening Day at Yankee Stadium. The Opener is an event that is longingly awaited every year, but the uplifting and exciting, then excruciating, five-game loss to the Seattle Mariners in the 1995 ALDS had left Yankee fans hungry for big-time winning baseball. So 50,000-plus suffered and froze their way to a 7-3 victory over Kansas City behind the gritty Andy Pettitte through a nonstop snowstorm that day. None realized that the day would have a second highlight with the almost offhand Yankee offer of a free ticket to one of three upcoming games to all who had suffered through the conditions. Continue reading →
April 8, 2022, served as a quite late Opening Day due to a players/owners labor disagreement with the ownership lockout, and it began poorly for the Yankees. Ace Gerrit Cole, forced to be idle after warming up with the pregame ceremonies slowly unfolding, surrendered three first-inning runs to the Red Sox, and the Yankees battled from behind the whole game. Anthony Rizzo‘s two-run homer in the first got them close, and home runs from Giancarlo Stanton (in the fourth) and DJ LeMahieu (in the eighth) tied the game heading into extras. Boston’s ghost runner scored in the 10th on a Xander Bogaerts single off Michael King, but Gleyber Torres, on the bench for this opener, tied it with a pinch hit sac fly. Finally, a Josh Donaldson single won it in the 11th, 3:56 from the 1:08 first pitch, 6-5 Yankees. Continue reading →
One day before a total eclipse of the sun, the Yankees pounded visiting Toronto on April 7, 2024, largely on a five-run third inning punctuated by a Giancarlo Stanton grand slam. Anthony Volpe had three singles, and scored twice, neither of them in the big inning. Continue reading →
