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Baltimore Orioles 3–New York Yankees 2 (10 innings) Phil Hughes put together another solid start and Travis Hafner stayed hot, but it wasn’t enough as the O’s clipped the Bombers in extra innings. Hughes was effective over 6 innings, allowing just 5 hits and 2 runs–both solo shots by Chris Dickerson–while striking out 5, before [...]
New York Yankees 6–Baltimore Orioles 4 Where would we be without Travis Hafner and Vernon Wells? Once again, it was the two off-season acquisitions who came up with the big hits, powering the Yanks to their 12th come-from-behind victory of the season. Down 4-3 in the 9th, Hafner blasted a game-tying, opposite-field shot to left [...]
On this day 93 years ago Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a Yankee in a 6-0 victory over Boston. After going without a long ball in eleven April games, the Sultan of Swat saved his first of 659 Yankee dingers for a matchup with his former club. Herb Pennock, another future Yankee [...]
On this day 17 years ago the Yankees edged Baltimore in what was then the longest 9-inning game in Major League history, eclipsing the 4:18 mark set by the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants in 1962. In a 4 hour, 21 minute affair, the Bombers outlasted the Orioles in the first game of [...]
On this day 52 years ago, Roger Maris began his assault on Babe Ruth‘s hallowed home run record. It took him until the eleventh game of the season, but Maris finally connected on a long ball in the 5th inning off of Detroit’s Paul Foytack. Incredibly, it would be his only home run in the [...]
Triple-A: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Columbus 4, SWB 1 Chien-Ming Wang allowed three runs on four hits over 6.2 innings, but did not benefit from much run support as the RailRiders fell to the Clippers, dropping to 9-10 on the season. Just one of Wang’s runs was earned, keeping his ERA at a stingy 0.75 as his [...]
On this day 96 years ago George Mogridge tossed the first no-hitter in franchise history in a 2-1 victory over the Red Sox. It would be a full 66 years until another regular season no-hitter was thrown by a Bomber, when Dave Righetti achieved the milestone in 1983. In front of just 3,219 at Fenway [...]
I recently came across the name of a New York Giants player from the 1880s named Cannonball Titcomb. I successfully fought the urge to immediately order a customized San Francisco Giants jersey, but not by much. It got me thinking, what are some of the oddest player names in Yankee history? In the 110-year reign of [...]
On this day 110 years ago the New York Yankees, then known as the Highlanders, won the first game in franchise history. After dropping their inaugural game to the Senators the day before, the Highlanders topped Washington at American League Park in a 7-2 victory. Right-hander Harry Howell, with the help of a nasty spitball, [...]
On this day 12 years ago the Yanks topped the Red Sox in thrilling fashion before a near-capacity crowd at the Stadium. After enduring 5.2 stingy innings from Tomo Ohka, whose only earned run was a 5th inning solo shot by Jorge Posada, the Yanks tied it up in the 7th on a solo blast [...]
On this day 56 years ago, Bill Skowron outshone the likes of Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, and Yogi Berra, slugging two home runs in a 10-7 win over Boston. His first dinger, yielded by Willard Nixon, led off the 2nd inning. It was an historic blast that not only cleared the left centerfield wall, but soared to the [...]
On this day 90 years ago the Yankees played the inaugural game at Yankee Stadium on a chilly 49-degree afternoon. In front of 74,200 fans, many of whom having driven down a dirt road leading to the Stadium, the Bronx Bombers dealt the Boston Red Sox a 4-1 loss. Pitcher Bob Shawkey went the distance [...]
On this day 62 years ago two Yankee legends made their debuts, one in right field and one in the announcer’s booth. Against the Boston Red Sox a fresh-faced 19-year-old named Mickey Mantle, who was added to the Major League club late after a very productive spring training, started beside his predecessor in center field, [...]
On this day 84 years ago the Yankees became the first team to make numbers a permanent part of their uniform. Previously numbers had been used intermittently, even appearing on the uniform sleeve at times, but in ’29 they would remain. Other teams quickly followed suit and by 1932 uniform numbers were standard across the [...]
On this day 15 years ago the Yankees were forced to play a home game across the river at Shea Stadium, two days after a 500-pound concrete and steel beam fell from beneath the upper deck. The beam obliterated a seat and left a 6-inch deep hole in the concrete floor. Thankfully, the Stadium was [...]
Luis Sojo began his Major League career with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1990. After a stop in California, a return trip to Toronto, and a stint in Seattle, Sojo was traded to the Yanks in August of 1996. The timing was nothing short of fortuitous as two months later he would be fitted for [...]
On this day 58 years ago Whitey Ford single-handedly dismantled the Washington Senators in a 19-1 Opening Day rout at Yankee Stadium. The slick lefty baffled the boys from D.C., allowing just 2 hits and 1 run in a complete game victory, but the Chairman of the Board put on a show at the plate as [...]
On this day 86 years ago an opening day record 60,000 fans watched the Yankees dismantle Ty Cobb and the Philadelphia Athletics, 8-3. Behind 2 RBIs from Lou Gehrig and Earle Combs and 3 hits off the bat of Joe Dugan, the Bombers tagged ace Lefty Grove–who would win 20 games in ’27–for 8 runs [...]
The Yankees presented a natty appearance in their new uniforms of white with black pinstripes. | The New York Times, April 12, 1912 | On this day 101 years ago, the same day the RMS Titanic departed for New York City on its fateful maiden voyage, the Highlanders–they would not officially change their monicker to “Yankees” until [...]
