• Gerrit Cole and offense propel Yankees to key sweep of Orioles

    Gerrit Cole and offense propel Yankees to key sweep of Orioles

    Maybe falling to .500 on Tuesday was rock bottom for the Yankees. Since a five-game losing streak left them clinging to a postseason spot, they have won three straight, including a sweep of Friday’s doubleheader over the Orioles in The Bronx. In the process, they got a glimpse of the Gerrit Cole they expected when …
  • Buck Showalter opens up about Yankees tenure, state of New York baseball

    Buck Showalter opens up about Yankees tenure, state of New York baseball

    With the MLB season entering the final weeks of the regular season, former Yankees manager Buck Showalter takes a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How would you compare Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez as prospects? A: Derek had the ability to always dial up what the situation called for. If …
  • Yankees-Orioles opener postponed with Friday doubleheader on tap

    Yankees-Orioles opener postponed with Friday doubleheader on tap

    There will be no baseball in The Bronx on Thursday. The series opener between the Yankees and Orioles at Yankee Stadium was officially postponed with inclement weather rolling in. The game has been rescheduled as a part of a Friday doubleheader beginning at 4:05 p.m. ET, with both games slated to be seven-inning regulation matchups. …
  • Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso heroics lead Mets to wild win

    Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso heroics lead Mets to wild win

    This was one of those nights the Mets lineup wasn’t going to be inconvenienced by the starting rotation’s follies. When in doubt use the long ball. All it took was four of them on Wednesday, including an eighth-inning blast from Pete Alonso for the lead, sending the Mets to a 7-6 victory over the Orioles …
  • Mets’ playoff hopes take massive hit in Orioles beatdown

    Mets’ playoff hopes take massive hit in Orioles beatdown

    The Mets have 17 games left in the regular season. At this point, it seems more likely they’ll be playing out the string than making a push toward the playoffs. That’s especially true after they were manhandled by the Orioles in an 11-2 loss on Tuesday night in Queens. Their lineup was shut down by …
  • How Yankees must tackle shocking reality before it’s too late

    How Yankees must tackle shocking reality before it’s too late

    BUFFALO — OK, so maybe you didn’t expect the Yankees’ first-ever excursion here to carry the kind of weight it’s going to. It’s all but certain you didn’t expect them to come here looking up at the Blue Jays, who are using Buffalo as a homestead in this summer of the virus. And … well, …
  • Yankees hit rock bottom in another loss to Orioles

    Yankees hit rock bottom in another loss to Orioles

    BALTIMORE — The only thing the Yankees hit Sunday in Camden Yards was rock bottom. And if losing three of four to the Orioles isn’t the lowest Aaron Boone’s team can go, the rest of a very short season is going to feel awfully long. Even without Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and James Paxton, it’s …
  • 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 …
  • Yankees’ dominance of Orioles ends with disappointing split

    Yankees’ dominance of Orioles ends with disappointing split

    BALTIMORE — It could have been worse, but it didn’t come close to being good. That sums up what the Yankees did at Camden Yards on Friday night, where they split a doubleheader against the awful Orioles. After eking out a 6-5 win in the opener that took nine innings, the Yankees were in position …