• Yankees can exhale — for one night, at least

    Yankees can exhale — for one night, at least

    BUFFALO — For a change, it was hard to hear Aaron Boone as he settled behind the microphone and in front of the Zoom camera. For a change, you could hear strands of loud music bleeding though the walls of the visiting clubhouse at Sahlen Field, the sure sign that a baseball game had gone, …
  • Luke Voit’s ‘sad’ Yankees comments get back to Aaron Boone

    Luke Voit’s ‘sad’ Yankees comments get back to Aaron Boone

    Aaron Boone was aware of Luke Voit’s comments Tuesday night, when the Yankees’ losing streak stretched to five games via a one-run loss to the Blue Jays in Buffalo. “We have to get back to what the New York Yankees are. I feel like teams aren’t really scared of us right now, and it is …
  • Breaking down five reasons for this Yankees’ disaster

    Breaking down five reasons for this Yankees’ disaster

    How did a team that won nine of its first 11 games in a season limited to 60 dates and led the AL East by four lengths on Aug. 8 wake up Wednesday in Buffalo at 21-21 and playing for its postseason life? Well, losing 15 of 20 has a way of quickly turning an …
  • Yankees fall to .500 after suffering fifth consecutive loss

    Yankees fall to .500 after suffering fifth consecutive loss

    This is what it sounds like when bats die. One night after wasting a rare river of runs, the Yankees morphed into hitters who used soaked editions of the N.Y. Post for bats against the Blue Jays on Tuesday night. J.A. Happ provided a cure for the ills that have infected the Yankees across the …
  • Yankees making the playoffs is no longer a sure thing

    Yankees making the playoffs is no longer a sure thing

    BUFFALO — This was a case study of baseball as water torture. A walk. A fly ball. Another walk. Time came to a screeching halt inside Sahler Field. They ratcheted the crowd noise up a little. And then a lot. They started playing this horrendous white-noise sound effect, and the parade of base runners continued …
  • Yankees irked by Miguel Andujar error on ‘play we have to make’

    Yankees irked by Miguel Andujar error on ‘play we have to make’

    BALTIMORE — Third basemen are instructed to go after every ground ball toward the hole if they feel a clean play can be made. So when Miguel Andujar started moving to his left on Pedro Severino’s grounder to start the sixth inning Sunday at Camden Yards, it appeared shortstop Tyler Wade was in better position …
  • Yankees waste Gerrit Cole’s solid start in brutal loss to Orioles

    Yankees waste Gerrit Cole’s solid start in brutal loss to Orioles

    BALTIMORE — If the Yankees can’t admit their season is in peril after what went down at Camden Yards on Saturday night, they need an intervention. With Gerrit Cole looking like a young Doc Gooden against a very bad Orioles lineup and the Yankees desperately needing a victory, their frigid bats and third baseman Thairo …
  • Clarke Schmidt’s debut shows the Yankees are still in peril

    Clarke Schmidt’s debut shows the Yankees are still in peril

    It turned out to be, in every way, the exact opposite of the narrative the Yankees wanted to craft Friday night. One young pitcher’s encore falling short of his debut. A second pitcher’s debut occurring in about as tough a spot as you would construct for your worst enemy. Two streaks of dominance screeching to …
  • Aroldis Chapman, Aaron Boone suspended for roles in Yankees-Rays bench-clearing

    Aroldis Chapman, Aaron Boone suspended for roles in Yankees-Rays bench-clearing

    MLB has handed down its punishments stemming from the benches-clearing incident at the end of Tuesday’s Yankees-Rays matchup. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman will sit out three games for “intentionally throwing a pitch” at the head area of Tampa batter Mike Brosseau in the top of the ninth inning of the 5-3 win. Chapman was also …
  • MLB needs to punish Yankees and Rays for ill-timed debacle

    MLB needs to punish Yankees and Rays for ill-timed debacle

    Nope. Not in this COVID baseball season. Not at this tempestuous moment in our country’s history. I’m betting Rob Manfred and his deputies will correctly agree. An important Yankees victory Tuesday night — 5-3 over the rival Rays at Yankee Stadium, halting a six-game losing streak against their low-payroll nemeses — turned extremely ugly at …