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BALTIMORE — So far in this bizarro baseball season, there’s been a four-month shutdown due to a pandemic and labor dispute, followed by countless rule changes and a constantly changing schedule. But one thing has remained the same: The Yankees can’t seem to lose to the Orioles. Even after blowing a five-run lead and seeing …
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WASHINGTON — It began with a sublime display of unity, hope and gratitude, two of the game’s best franchises showing off their social consciousness on the Nationals Park field. It concluded with that same field covered by a rain-soaked tarp featuring the garish logo for Skittles, the candy that ruins your teeth. Baby steps. The …
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Sometimes, these things can be an illusion on television. A ball looks like it is absolutely clobbered in real time — but on replay, slowed down, you see it was hit south of the trademark, or all the way up to the tip of the barrel. A switch of cameras shows a cannon shot that’s …
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WASHINGTON — What Hal Steinbrenner dreamed of when he dropped an ocean of money on Gerrit Cole in December came to life Thursday on a stormy late July evening. Nothing about this baseball season has been normal. Spring training vanished in the middle of March due to the coronavirus and the invisible COVID-19 dances into …
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WASHINGTON — Everyone from both the Yankees and Nationals knelt … before the national anthem. Major League Baseball’s long-awaited opening night featured a pregame ceremony at Nationals Park that recognized a social issue that has risen to prominence since the death of George Floyd in custody of Minneapolis police in May. The entire Yankees and …
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When the coronavirus shut down spring training on March 12 the Yankees were the favorites to win the AL East despite not having Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Hicks and Luis Severino for the scheduled March 26 start of the regular season. Now with a 60-game schedule beginning Thursday in Washington against the defending World …
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It’s not clear yet whether someone in a New York baseball uniform will kneel during the pregame playing of the national anthem. What stands clear right now, however, is Aaron Judge’s support of anyone who wants to do that. “That’s the beauty of America, is freedom of speech,” Judge said Tuesday after the Yankees completed …
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In the quiet visiting clubhouse at Minute Maid Park last October, just minutes after the Yankees saw their season end in crushing fashion against the Astros in the ALCS, manager Aaron Boone addressed the team then opened up the floor. Aaron Judge spoke up to deliver a message that is still on his mind nine …
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Even if it was in a game that didn’t count, what Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and Giancarlo Stanton did Sunday night forced people to wonder what the trio could accomplish if they all remained healthy in the upcoming 60-game season. Since Stanton joined the Yankees in 2018, he has played 176 games out of 324. …
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The noise of Yankees bats kissing baseballs at an empty Yankee Stadium on Sunday night cut through a blanket of serious heat, and if Mets pitchers turned their heads to watch the balls take flight, their necks would have buckled. Five homers, two by Aaron Judge, reinforced that after more than three months away due …
BALTIMORE — So far in this bizarro baseball season, there’s been a four-month shutdown due to a pandemic and labor dispute, followed by countless rule changes and a constantly changing schedule. But one thing has remained the same: The Yankees can’t seem to lose to the Orioles. Even after blowing a five-run lead and seeing …
