“After one game, one glorious game, Matsui already felt enveloped in the mystique and aura of the legendary Stadium where so much baseball history has happened. Actually, Matsui added to those feelings of invincibility by becoming the first Yankee to stroke a grand slam in his first game in the Bronx. He is now ahead [...]

For New York Yankee fans, nothing will ever ease the permanent sting of the Yankees’ colossal collapse of historic proportions when the Boston Red Sox became the only team in major league baseball history to incredibly rally from a three games to none deficit to win the 2004 American League Championship Series in seven games [...]

It’s interesting to note that right in middle of the word “clutch” are the first two letters of the surname of Philadelphia Phillies’ second baseman Chase Utley, whose two solo home runs provided the only scoring off New York Yankees’ ace pitcher C.C. Sabathia over the first seven innings in the opening game of the [...]

Bronx, NY – When the New York Yankees blew a 3-0 lead to the hated Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series in 2004, Andy Pettitte wasn’t there to make sure that the unthinkable didn’t happen.
On Sunday night, the left-hander from Baton Rouge did the next best thing, and did his part to [...]

New York – He is forever etched in the annals of baseball history, especially in New York baseball history but these days, Aaron Boone, former Yankee third baseman, American League All-Star, and author of one of the biggest home runs in baseball history, is just another baseball lifer, a 36-year old infielder trying to squeeze [...]

Lazzari’s “Cheap Win of the Week” (and it doesn’t get much cheaper!): Undoubtedly goes to the Yankees’ Joba Chamberlain, who labored through the minimum 5 innings last week vs. Boston–giving up a pair of homers, walking SEVEN, and allowing four earned runs. However, like many of his New York predecessors, he benefits from the team’s [...]

It was a whacky 9th inning to be sure.  The Yankees were holding on to a precarious one run lead going into the top half of the inning and the cat and mouse game between Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Mets manager Jerry Manuel began.
To set this up you have to go back to the [...]

The highly anticipated debut of the New York Yankees $161 million pitcher ended up to be a major fizzle as the Baltimore Orioles took the Bombers and C.C. Sabathia to the woodshed with a 10-5 pounding before 48,607 screaming fans at Camden Yard Monday afternoon.  It was the largest Opening Day crowd in the 18-year [...]

The “confession” isn’t even 24 hours old and the public trial of Alex Rodriguez has already begun.  After a published story by Sports Illustrated came out this past Saturday claiming that Rodriguez had failed a Major League Baseball sanctioned survey drug test in 2003 A-Rod went before the ESPN cameras and Peter Gammons yesterday and [...]