Neil Keefe talks New York Yankees. New episodes after every game.
The Yankees finally won a game. Deivi Garcia led the way, and in the 43rd game of the season, Gleyber Torres decided to show up with a home run, double and four RBIs. The Yankees now have a chance to officially get back on track with a four-game series at home against the Orioles. At the 6:06 mark, former Yankees reliever Scott Proctor joins me to talk about his baseball career and time with the Yankees.
Entering this weekend, the Yankees had a 19-game winning streak against the lowly Orioles. That streak reached 20 games after Friday's win in the first game of the doubleheader, but after that, the Yankees lost three straight to the rebuilding Orioles. The Yankees' season continues to get worse as they are now in eighth in the AL, barely in a postseason spot.
If you thought the Yankees would get back on track this weekend against the Orioles, you must think this Yankees team is any good. They aren't. They were 16-6 and now they're 21-18. But according to their manager, they're doing "really good positive things."
On Thursday against the Mets, the combination of J.A. Happ and Aaron Boone blew a 4-0 lead, and the combination of Zack Britton and Aroldis Chapman blew a 7-4 lead. The loss was the Yankees' third in four games, and as their season continues to head in the wrong direction, the team keeps coming up with excuses when they lose.
The season series is over between the Yankees and Rays. Thankfully. The Rays won the series 8-2, and for as bad as that is, it seemed even worse. The Yankees won't see the Rays again unless they see them in the postseason, and no Yankees fan should want that.
The Yankees did it! They beat the Rays! After six straight losses to their only division competition, the Yankees avoided blowing another game to the Rays. Masahiro Tanaka was allowed to pitch six innings, DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit kept on hitting and Kevin Kiermaier finally did something bad against the Yankees. Because of the ninth-inning antics, the series and season finale on Wednesday might lead to some suspensions.
On Saturday against the Mets, J.A. Happ pitched like Gerrit Cole. And on Monday against the Rays, Gerrit Cole pitched like J.A. Happ. It was the second straight start in which Cole lasted only five innings, as he has now failed to beat the Rays in any of his three starts against them this season. Cole has been good this season, but he needs to be great. If he isn’t his old self a month from now, the Yankees aren’t going anywhere.
The five-game Subway Series was full of surprises. The Yankees won games they were supposed to lose and lost games they were supposed to win. They walked off on the Mets twice and got walked off on despite being the home team. They won a game on a wild pitch and came back to win another game despite a 0.02 percent chance of winning. It was a crazy weekend made crazier by Aaron Boone.
The Yankees lost for the sixth straight game, and once again, it was a game they could have and should have won. Chad Green blew a three-run lead by allowing three home runs in an inning and Aaron Boone's lineup and in-game decisions were right in the middle of the loss. The Yankees still have to play the Mets four times this weekend and they will have to do so without any of their three top and actual starting pitchers. Reaction to the first game of the series-opening doubleheader.
I don't know how the Yankees are going to win a game this weekend. Gerrit Cole and Masahiro Tanaka can't start and their 1 through 4 hitters are out as Aaron Judge becomes Giancarlo Stanton with injuries. After the five games against the Mets, things only get worse with three more games against the Rays and another game against the Mets next weekend.
It's a summer Friday. No one should be this upset on a summer Friday, but here I am furious about the Yankees because of their last three games. The Yankees are falling apart .
The Yankees have one team they're competing against for the AL East title and they can't beat them. After losing to the Rays 4-2 on Wednesday night, the Yankees are now 1-5 against their only division competition this season.
The Rays are better than the Yankees. Maybe they won't be at the end of the season, but right now they are. Even if the Yankees hold a 1 1/2-game lead over them in the standings, the Rays are now 4-1 against the Yankees this season.
The Yankees don't lose at home and they certainly don't lose to the Red Sox. After sweeping the Red Sox in a three-game series a couple of weeks ago at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees swept them again, this time in a four-game series. The Yankees have now won 10 straight against the Red Sox for the first time since 1952-53. With the four wins over the Red Sox, the Yankees have now won six straight and are 16-6 with a three-game lead in the loss column over the Rays. If the Yankees' winning streak co...
Aaron Boone might have outright lied as Yankees manager to the fans and the media when he removed Aaron Judge from Tuesday's game. If he did, it's not a great look for a manager in New York. If he didn't, then Aaron Judge seemingly can't stay healthy once again. Either way, it's bad for the Yankees.
When the Yankees lead a game 3-0 after the first inning, 6-0 after the third innning and 8-0 after the fifth inning, there should be no reason to get upset, frustrated or annoyed with Aaron Boone. But the Yankees manager always finds a way.
On top of five losses in seven games, Aaron Boone has been as bad as ever with days off and bullpen decisions, the Yankees still can't situationally hit, James Paxton is being treated as a hero for blowing a three-run lead and Giancarlo Stanton is once again hurt as a Yankee. It was a bad week.
Giancarlo Stanton played in only 18 games last season and then missed a lot of the postseason with various injuries. After playing in 14 games this season (all as the designated hitter), Stanton now has a hamstring injury. When will it end with him?
The Yankees had two hits and seven baserunners on Friday night and lost 1-0, but they didn't lose because of their lack of baserunners. The Rays only had two hits and four baserunners and managed to get across the game's lone run in an inning without a hit. The difference in the game was the Yankees' situational hitting. In a game in which Blake Snell was removed after three innings, the Yankees failed to score a leadoff double in both the seventh and eighth innings and failed to even get the ru...
The Yankees haven't clinched or won anything in 2020. Even at 9-3 they don't have the best record in the American League or in baseball, but they are being managed like they have everything wrapped up.
J.A. Happ can't start another game for the Yankees. After providing 30 mostly awful starts in 2019, Happ has continued his decline by laying two eggs to begin 2020. In two starts, Happ has only been pitched seven innings, while allowing eight earned runs, eight walks and three home runs. The Yankees need to stop thinking Happ is going to get better and figure it out. He's not. It's time to put him in the bullpen and give his rotation spot to someone with the ability to get major league hitters o...
In his third start as a Yankees, Gerrit Cole didn't have his best stuff and hasn't had it yet with New York. Despite this, he's 3-0 with a 2.55 ERA. Brett Gardner proved the super baseballs are still in play as he hit an opposite-field home run, a feat that seemed impossible for him prior to the change in the ball and Gio Urshela hit his third home run of the season. Aaron Boone tried to make it a game after the rain delay by choosing not to go to his elite relievers right away for the final nin...
Neil Keefe and Mike Hurley of CBS Boston talk about the Red Sox’ abysmal starting pitching, watching this Red Sox team for a full season, revisiting the team’s decision to not sign Mookie Betts, the career progression of Rafael Devers and decline of Andrew Benintendi.
Another game, another win for the Yankees as their winning streak is now at five games after their 5-2 win over the Red Sox. Masahiro Tanaka was OK in his season debut, which was limited due to a pitch count, but Aaron Judge homered for the fourth straight game and Gio Ursheal hit the Yankees’ second grand slam in three nights to power the offense. The Yankees got 6 1/3 innings of two-hit, shutout pitching from the trio of Luis Avilan, Nick Nelson and David Hale to stifle the Red Sox. It was ann...
The Yankees' home-opening 5-1 win over the Red Sox was their fourth straight, and given how bad this Red Sox team is, the Yankees should beat up on them all season. The Red Sox' lineup still boasts J.D. Martinez, Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts, but after that, there's not much. (Andrew Benintendi is part of the not much.) As for their pitching staff ... well, it's right there with the Orioles'.
Before the season, I said I was going to be patient and understanding and wouldn't get upset with Aaron Boone this season. I said I was going to accept his managerial ways even if they are at times confusing, frustrating and nonsensical. Well, it didn't even take five full games for me to scrap my plan. After Boone's bullpen management in Baltimore, I had no choice.
After two unexpected days off, the Yankees played again on Wednesday night and won again, beating the Orioles 9-3 to improve to 3-1 on the season. Why was Gerrit Cole out for the seventh inning at 90 pitches with a six-run lead and nine outs to go to a win? And why is the team not playing the everyday lineup in a season in which they have already had three days off in a week and could have additional days off at any day during this season? Yes, the Yankees won again, but these are relevant quest...
For as good as the Yankees were and are expected to be this season, Saturday night proved why I still have my doubts about them in the postseason. Without Luis Severino this season, the Yankees need James Paxton to be a front-end starter and they can't afford for him to have many other starts like his first.
Neil Keefe and Scott Reinen of Bronx Pinstripes talk about the Yankees’ season-opening win over the Nationals, Brett Gardner batting fifth in the lineup, Gerrit Cole’s Yankees debut, the new-look Giancarlo Stanton, Tyler Wade’s best game in the majors and the expanded postseason field.
Neil Keefe talks with former Yankees pitcher Brian Gordon about transitioning from the outfield to the mound after a decade in the minors, how Nolan Ryan helped him change positions, his first call-up the majors as a reliever with the Rangers, his unbelievable 2011 season in Triple-A, the June 15 opt out that allowed him to be a Yankee, making his first career start in Yankee Stadium, playing in the KBO in Korea and what his post-playing career has been like.
