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Game 43: Yankees vs. Mets

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The second game of the Subway Series features a match-up of each team’s best young starter. The more heralded Phil Hughes has finally begun to show the promise that led him to be considered one of the best prospects in the game, while the more established Mike Pelfrey has bounced back from a disappointing 2009 […]

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Beat the Mets: Vazquez, Russo Engineer Yanks Win in Subway Series Opener

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on May 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

For most of the early season, the Yankees had been winning every game except the ones started by Javier Vazquez. Now, Vazquez has recorded the last two Yankee wins. As John Sterling would say (over and over again), you just can’t predict baseball. The story of the game for the Yankees was the precision pitching […]

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Game 42: Yankees vs. Mets

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Over the past several years, the Subway Series has usually featured two teams on divergent paths. When the Yankees have been riding high, the Mets have usually been down in the dumps, and vice versa. This time, however, both teams come limping into the showdown. The Subway Series is always important for both teams (although […]

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Mayor’s Trophy Mystery: Did Nettles Really Try To Throw A Game?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees on May 21, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Long before interleague matchups, the Yankees and Mets used to play a somewhat annual exhibition known as the Mayor’s Trophy Game. The popularity of the game, which was played to benefit the city’s Amateur Baseball Federation, ebbed and flowed from the time it was inaugurated in 1946 (as a three way series involving the Yankees, […]

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Beasts of the East: Rays Sweep Yankees, Take Control of Division

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on May 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »

The Rays came to the Bronx to deliver a message and did so loudly and clearly. By sweeping two games from the Yankees, the Rays not only outplayed them, but outclassed them as well. It’s only May, but until the Yankees get healthy, if they ever do, the AL East appears to be the Rays […]

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Game 41: Rays vs. Yankees

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

After taking it on the chin in last night’s game, the Yankees look to Andy Pettitte to halt a two game losing streak and even the score with the Rays. With a win, the Yankees would also eke out a winning home stand by finishing 4-3. The Yankees not only hope that Pettitte will be […]

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Do You Know Where Your GM Is Tonight?

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Should a baseball team’s general manager be attending rock concerts on the same night that his team loses an excruciating game against their chief rival? That’s the question being asked across Red Sox Nation after Theo Epstein was spotted at a Pearl Jam concert on the same night Jonathan Papelbon was blowing a save at […]

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