
THE BRONX, NY — Instant Reaction to the Yankees 3-1 victory over the rival Blue Jays, improving to 79-63 on the season. This sets up a huge rubber game tomorrow with Max Fried taking the ball for the Yankees, and Max Scherzer taking the ball for the Blue Jays.

THE BRONX, NY — Aaron Judge is back in right field for the first time since returning from the injured list on August fifth. Judge playing in right field makes the Yankees a much better team. Judge suffered a flexor strain the last time the Yankees played Toronto at Rogers Centre throwing a ball…

HOUSTON, TX — Instant Reaction to the Yankees 8-4 win over the Astros, improving to 78-62 on the season. The Yankees now enter their three-game set with the Blue Jays three games back of them for the AL East lead. The Yankees also moved a half game up on Boston in the wildcard chase.

HOUSTON, TX — Jazz Chisholm Jr. was removed from Thursday’s game due to an apparent injury. The injury occurred making a really nice play at second base, catching Astros’ second basemen Jose Altuve trying to advance on a wild pitch. Chisholm Jr. was noticeably uncomfortable in the dugout before his fourth inning at-bat where…

HOUSTON, TX — While the Yankees bullpen completely melted down from the sixth inning on, the latest Yankees loss to a postseason team was also aided from a really poor performance by the home plate umpire Brian Walsh. According to Umpire Auditor, and account on X, Walsh missed twenty-one calls on Wednesday, and fifteen…

HOUSTON, TX — Instant Reaction to the Yankees 8-4 collapse at the hand of the Astros, droping to 77-62 on the season. It’s games like today that make people not believe in the Yankees long-term heading into October. When you have a lead with your starter coming off the mound, those are games that…

HOUSTON, TX — Max Fried had a six-week struggle in the middle of the season, going from a perennial cy-young contender, to a pitcher that was frankly hard to watch. While the underlying cause of the struggles was a Blister that popped up before the all-star break, the blister seems to be a distant…

HOUSTON, TX — Instant Reaction to the Yankees’ 7-1 victory over the Astros in the first of three in Houston, improving to 77-61 on the season.

HOUSTON, TX — The home stretch of the baseball season means a lot of things, and one of them is the expansion of the 26-man roster to 28 players. This season, with the Yankees very much in a pennant race and trying to fight for their division, the Yankees made the move to activate…
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