Neil Keefe talks New York Yankees. New episodes after every game.
After losing the Field of Dreams game on Thursday, the Yankees won on both Saturday and Sunday to win the three-game series over the White Sox and finish the 2021 season 5-1 against the AL Central's best. The offense was present in all three games (20 runs scored), but the bullpen continues to be an unknown each day, something it can't be over the remaining 45 games.
After an improbable comeback in the top of the ninth, the Yankees lost the Field of Dreams game to the White Sox 9-8 on a two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth. Zack Britton gave up the game-winning home run and took the loss, but the game was lost way before that. It was lost when the Yankees announced Andrew Heaney as the starting pitcher for the game.
The Yankees will play the White Sox this weekend without the following players and pitchers: Gary Sanchez, Anthony Rizzo, Gleyber Torres, Gio Urshela, Gerrit Cole, Jordan Montgomery, Domingo German, Aroldis Chapman and Clay Holmes. Aaron Hicks is out for the season, Luis Severino is still on his way back from Tommy John surgery and Corey Kluber hasn't started a game in nearly three months. If the Yankees were to get in the postseason and ever get healthy, they would have the best roster in the p...
The Yankees won another game against a bad team, beating the Royals 8-6 in 11 innings on Monday. It shouldn’t be this hard to beat the Marlins, Orioles, Mariners and Royals, but the Yankees’ lack of offense combined with their bullpen meltdowns and managerial blunders are forcing every game to be a one- or two-run game.
Another game for the post-trade deadline Yankees and another win. The Yankees are now 6-1 since trading for Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo, and after Rizzo carried the team to a sweep in Miami, Gallo hit his first Yankees home run, a go-ahead, three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning on Thursday night. These Yankees are fun, but the winning can't stop, especially with a big weekend ahead.
The Yankees beat the Orioles in back-to-back games, won the three-game series and even scored double-digit runs two nights in a row. You could look at as the Yankees are finally playing up to their potential (12-6 since the All-Star break), winning as a result of their trade deadline acquisitions (5-1 since the deadline) or just beating up on bad teams (having won five of six against the Marlins and Orioles). Whatever it is, the Yankees are winning.
The Yankees finally won a laugher, scoring double-digit runs for just the fourth time in 106 games and winning their fourth game by more than two runs since the end of June with a 13-1 win over the Orioles. The offense exploded, Luis Gil looked like the Yankees' ace in place of him and Stephen Ridings came out throwing the way Dellin Betances used to. In addition to the Yankees' all-around performance, the Rays, Red Sox and A's all lost. After the recap, Eric Arditti of Barstool Sports joined me...
The Yankees had their worst loss of the season not even two weeks ago when they blew a two-run, ninth-inning lead at Fenway Park to open a four-game series. Well, now they have their most embarrassing loss of the season. The Yankees were essentially shut down by the worst starting pitcher in all of baseball, getting three-hit by the Orioles and going 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position in a 7-1 loss.
Anthony Rizzo led the Yankees to a much-needed sweep of the Marlins over the weekend, and while the Yankees were winning in Miami, the Rays were sweeping the Red Sox in St. Petersburg. The Yankees now trail the Rays by six games in the loss column for the division, the Red Sox by four games for the first wild card and the A’s by one game for the second wild card. The Yankees’ next 10 games against the Orioles, Mariners and Royals are a chance for them to potentially hold a playoff spot by the en...
The Yankees are seven games back in the loss colum in the division, but with their new additions, there's a path to them winning the AL East. It won't be easy, and they will have to win about 43 of their remaining 61 games, but it can be done. After the recap, Frank Marco of Bronx Pinstripes joined me to talk about the trades for Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo, what it means for the rest of the season and how the Yankees will finish over the remaining two months.
The Yankees beat the Rays (something they have a hard time doing) at Tropicana Field on (something they rarely ever do). The Yankees followed their big win by salary dumping Justin Wilson on the Reds, but they needed to include Luis Cessa in the deal in order to do so.
The Yankees are off on Monday before playing the Rays in a critical three-game series. Aaron Judge and Gio Urshela are about to return. Luis Severino is getting closer and Corey Kluber is throwing. The trade deadline is Friday and the Yankees' roster could be upgraded. With 64 games left, the Yankees have a chance to reset for the final two months of the season with a new manager leading the way. (I'm aware they won't make a change.)
The Yankees were one out away from winning their fifth straight game overall and their third straight game over the Red Sox and cutting their loss-column deficit in the division to five games. Then everything fell apart, resulting in the Yankees' worst loss of the season.
The Yankees nearly had their most recent worst loss of the season thanks to their own manager's bullpen management, but not even Aaron Boone's ineptitude can get in the way of the run the Makeshift Yankees are on.
The Yankees have won three straight games, and they have done so with a new-look lineup, forced on them by injury and protocol issues. Their new style of play has worked, and they have cut into their division and wild card deficits.
This is it for the Yankees: their last chance. The Yankees have pissed away every opportunity this season to meet expectations and now they are down to their last one with eight of their next 10 games against the Red Sox. Play badly in these 10 games, and their season will be over with still two months to play. Michael Hurley of CBS Boston joined me to talk about managerial changes since Red Sox fans have seen a lot of them over the last 10 years. The Red Sox have made five managerial changes an...
Aaron Boone said, "The season is on the line," and that was before the Yankees lost two of three to the Angels. One more bad weekend or week between now and the All-Star break, and the season will no longer be on the line ... it will be over.
The Yankees played the Red Sox, so that means the Yankees lost. After scoring just three runs on Friday, the Yankees scored only two on Saturday, losing 4-2. The Yankees had a chance to go to Boston and have a big weekend to erase their deficit in the loss column, and instead, they have only let it grow.
The Yankees' inconsistent season continued in Boston on Friday with a 5-3 loss to the Red Sox. An all-right-handed lineup only scored three runs off Martin Perez, who is barely in the majors, Scumbag Domingo German and Luke Voit made errors, Gleyber Torres had another 0-for-4 and Phil Nevin got Gio Urshela thrown out at the plate with no outs. If you wanted to sum up the 2021 Yankees in a single game, Friday's series-opening loss would be the perfect example.
The Yankees have won seven of nine, have won three straight series and have gotten themselves within striking distance of first place in the AL East, something that seemed impossible less than two weeks ago. Now they have a chance to tie the Red Sox in the loss column in a weekend series that is the biggest of the season to date.
The Yankees swept the Blue Jays and they did so in a large part because of Gary Sanchez’s offense and his defense. Aaron Boone should have never made Kyle Higashioka the personal catcher for Gerrit Cole and now he has no valid reason to continue to pair the two.
The Yankees have lost three straight (again) and are back to one game over .500. They have the worst offense in the American League (Congratulations, Brian Cashman and staff!) and their manager is acting like someone who knows his days are numbered in his current position. Everything is going well!
The difference between the Yankees truly battling the Rays for the division as of now and having to focus on a wild-card berth has been their inability to sweep teams when given the opportunity. (Well, that and not being able to beat the Rays, Blue Jays or Red Sox). With a chance to go into Friday's day off off three straight wins against the really, really bad Twins, the Yankees blew a three-run lead and ended their two-game winning streak. After the recap, Eric Hubbs of the Short Porch Podcast...
The Yankees won again! Two wins a row! That's called a winning streak. The Yankees beat the Twins 9-6 on Wednesday, scoring more than eight runs in a game for just the second time in 62 games this season.
The Yankees scored eight runs for the first time in more than three weeks and ended their four-game losing streak against the Twins and former Yankee Michael Pineda with an 8-4 win. It was just the fourth win for the Yankees in their last 14 games, but it did set themselves up for what they need to do this week: sweep the Twins.
The Yankees suck. They really do. After getting swept by the Red Sox at home, the Yankees have now lost 10 of their last 13 games and trail the Rays by 6 1/2 games in the division. It's time to start focusing on one of the two wild-card berths, and even earning one of those might not be possible.
The Yankees lost again. This time it was 5-2 to the Red Sox on Friday night at the Stadium. It was another lackluster performance from the Yankees' offense as they are now 8-15 against the Blue Jays, Rays and Red Sox this season. After the game Aaron Boone gave the most idiotic answer to a question of all time, defending his team which leads the league in hitting into double plays, running into outs on the bases and has the second-worst offense in the AL.
The Yankees lost again, and they lost to the Rays again. The Yankees are now 5-8 against the Rays, having been outscored 64-37. The Yankees trail the Rays by 4 1/2 games in the AL East and with the Rays playing the Rangers this weekend and the Yankees playing the Red Sox, the Yankees' season is in trouble.
The Yankees won a game! For only the second time in their last eight games, the Yankees won, beating the Rays 5-3 in 11 innings on Tuesday. Clint Frazier hit a two-run, walk-off home run and the Yankees took a game off their division deficit. There's a still a lot of work to do over the next five days.
Since Opening Day, Aaron Boone has said the Yankees' offense will hit. It's now June 1, 54 games and one-third of the season has been played, and the Yankees still haven't hit. After being given a mulligan for April because the Rays and Blue Jays also had a bad first month, the Rays are running away with the division as the third month of the season begins.
