New York Yankees News and Rumors
Joba leaves game after being hit by broken batAndrew Marchand, ESPN.com New York Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain has left Game 4 of the AL division series against the Baltimore Orioles in the 12th inning after being hit on the right elbow by a broken bat. |
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Saunders starts, but Tillman gets taste of limelightOct 11, 2012
Joe Saunders was asked to keep the Orioles' season alive on Thursday night with the team down, 2-1, in its matchup with the New York Yankees. |
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Starting to jog, Rivera continues to improveOct 11, 2012
Evan Drellich, MLB.com A day after he threw out the first pitch ahead of Game 3 of the American League Division Series, injured Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said that his right knee has healed well enough that running has entered the picture. |
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LIVE: Yankees try to eliminate Orioles in ALDSOct 11, 2012
The Orioles and Yanks are in the 12th inning as they decide Game 4 in the Bronx. Nate McLouth's home run had given Baltimore the lead, but Robinson Cano and New York countered in sixth. |
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Ibanez's heroics prompt social media eruptionOct 11, 2012
The bedlam that broke out in the Bronx on Wednesday with Raul Ibanez's pair of home runs to lift the Yankees to a 3-2 win in 12 innings over the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Division Series spilled over into social media. |
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If they advance, A's to remove tarps for seatsOct 11, 2012
Oakland announced that the team will remove the tarps that covered the seats on the third deck of the main grandstand for Games 1 and 2, opening up 11,698 new seats for a potential ALCS matchup against the Yankees or Orioles. |
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A-Rod hitting fifth, Jeter at DH in Yankees lineupOct 11, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- Slumping Alex Rodriguez has been dropped to fifth in the New York Yankees' batting order and ailing Derek Jeter has been shifted to designated hitter for Game 4 of the AL division series. |
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The New York Times, nytimes.com Jim Luttrell and his Times colleagues will offer live analysis of Game 4 of the division series as the Yankees attempt to end the Baltimore Orioles' season and advance to the A.L.C.S. |
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Yankees' Run Allows Girardi No Time to GrieveOct 11, 2012
David Waldstein, nytimes.com Jerry Girardi, the father of Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, died Saturday in Metamora, Ill., at age 81. |
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Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com You'd think the news that Derek Jeter has finally sold his 88th-floor condo in the Trump World Tower would be putting a spring in the New York Yankees superstar's hobbled step, but that may not be the case. The final sale price for the shortstop's luxur… |
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Inside Girardi's Big Decision That Won Game 3Oct 11, 2012
Justin Sablich, nytimes.com Yankees Manager Joe Girardi did Wednesday night what would have been unthinkable just a few years back: he pinch hit for Alex Rodriguez and it paid off. |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com So we all know the story by now. An embattled Alex Rodriguez gets pinch-hit for by a 40-year-old Raul Ibanez in the bottom of the ninth in a 2-1 game. Ibanez homers to tie the game, A-Rod does his part by looking joyous, and then Ibanez hits another hom… |
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Leading Off: Coast to Coast, Comeback FeverOct 11, 2012
Lynn Zinser, nytimes.com Ninth-inning comebacks by the A's and the Yankees on Wednesday night provided sportswriters with many story lines. |
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Yankees will turn to Hughes in Game 4 vs. O'sOct 11, 2012
Wallace Matthews, ESPN.com Manager Joe Girardi said right-hander Phil Hughes would start Game 4 against the Baltimore Orioles even if the New York Yankees were facing elimination. |
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When he was named Oriole GM a little less than a year ago — the last man standing after a half-dozen execs declined to be interviewed, and one, Toronto Blue Jays scouting director Tony LaCava, turned down the job — Dan Duquette knew what he had to do.… |
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Raul Ibanez, not Alex Rodriguez is the Yankee who blasts his way into history with home runs against OriolesOct 11, 2012
In the kind of moment when great Yankees are supposed to stand up at Yankee Stadium, Alex Rodriguez sat down. Joe Girardi let Rodriguez bat No. 3 against the Orioles, all right, he did, watched him go 0-for-3, watched him strike out twice. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com With just two swings of the bat in Game 3 of the ALDS, slugger Raul Ibañez turned in one of the greatest performances in postseason history and entered the immortal pantheon of New York Yankees folklore. And he didn't even enter the game until the ninth… |
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Win deserved but elusive for strong KurodaOct 11, 2012
It had been a week since Hiroki Kuroda last took the mound but more than a month since he delivered a performance like he did on Wednesday in the Yankees' 3-2 win in 12 innings over the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. |
