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Aaron Judge's massive blast not enough to save Yanks in slugfest
TORONTO — Driven into an early ditch by Michael Pineda, the Yankees had no choice but to take their chances in a slugfest with the muscle-bound Blue Jays, which isn’t...
This is the Michael Pineda the Yankees couldn't find last year
Michael Pineda didn’t have his best stuff. But he had enough grit to give the Yankees a quality start and a win. That is the difference from the Pineda of...
Yankees put all breakthroughs on display to cap a great start
Memorial Day weekend is here, and the Yankees remain alone atop the AL East. If you hadn’t caught on yet, Sunday illustrated what everyone around baseball is witnessing. Michael Pineda...
How surprisingly upright rotation lets Yankees prospects simmer
The Yankees’ rotation was supposed to be the other one in town, the group that was going to need reinforcements sooner rather than later, the unit that looked like a...
Super-Yankees give a boost to cancer-stricken kids
Five Yankee hurlers pitched in as superheroes Thursday to a group of cancer-stricken kids. Mound men Jordan Montgomery, Masahiro Tanaka, Michael Pineda, CC Sabathia and Luis Severino dressed up as...
Yankees in weird position of counting on Michael Pineda
Michael Pineda is — of all things — the consistent, dependable member of the Yankee rotation. I know no one who has followed his Yankee career is going to buy...
Yankees ride a bunch more homers to slip past Royals
Of all the things the Yankees have done differently this season than last, perhaps most of all is get back to their roots. After finishing 11th in the American League...
It's taken until now for Yankees' glaring weakness to emerge
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When the Yankees left spring training, the biggest question mark was the starting rotation. Almost two months into the season, nothing has drastically changed, and it...
Yankees' red-hot offense pounds Royals into submission
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Long before Dellin Betances was summoned to squash a ninth-inning uprising, the Yankees were basking in the glow of assaulting a second straight Royals starter. That...
This isn't how Yankees rotation was supposed to cave in
The Yankees knew their rotation wasn’t exactly filled with reliable options. Not with Michael Pineda, the picture of inconsistency, Luis Severino, coming off one of the worst stretches by a...
'You have to take that shot': Yankees don't regret sending Ellsbury
Gary Sanchez had one thought when he singled to left with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and Jacoby Ellsbury on second. “Once I hit it, I thought...
How pumped up was Brett Gardner? 'He was drooling'
CHICAGO — As Brett Gardner’s fly ball headed in the direction of Lake Michigan, all of a sudden Wrigley Field was a sun-drenched beach instead of the walk-in freezer it...
The Yankees moves that prove they're serious about contending
The first time Rick Sutcliffe met Aaron Judge, he had Ken Griffey Jr. with him. The Mariners Hall of Famer had accompanied Sutcliffe to a Yankees game ESPN broadcast in...
Do the Mets not even have the best rotation in NY?
The tests keep coming for the Yankees’ rotation. Yankees starters went into Monday night with the ninth best ERA in the majors at 3.76 and that performance helped lift the...
Austin Romine opens eyes in shot he didn't know would come
The Yankees were 1-4 and skidding toward disaster when Gary Sanchez was sent to the disabled list. Exactly how could vanilla backup Austin Romine fill in for last year’s slugging...
Yankees blister ball after ball in another surprising onslaught
Those who smirked at the Yankees’ solid play in the middle of April pointed to the final week of the first month as a more accurate way to judge Joe...
Chris Carter shows up and starts sudden Yankees onslaught
PITTSBURGH — It took Chris Carter until mid-February to find a job this year, and for the first few weeks of the season, it was easy to see why the...
Inside the amazing ascendance of the Yankees' rotation
Thursday is 4/20, known as “Weed Day’’ among reefer enthusiasts, and if you predicted in late March the Yankees would be 10-5 after beginning the season 1-4, those drug testers...
Yankees coming together better than they could have dreamed
Don’t wake the Yankees up. Not from the dream in which Chase Headley is an MVP candidate, Michael Pineda is cool, calm and terrific, and anyone named Aaron is a...
This is the Michael Pineda the Yankees want to see more often
Michael Pineda did not flirt with perfection again, like he did the previous time. But he did not irritate and tease like he has so many, many times in the...