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As the Nationals and Pirates get ready to host Stephen Strasburg’s debutant ball in Washington, the Yankees and Orioles will be playing just 35 miles down the road in Baltimore. Judging by the size of the shadow cast by Strasburg’s long anticipated unveiling, however, you’d think the game was being played light years away. Amid […]

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The Stadium slugfest may have been held in the Bronx last night, but during the afternoon in Toronto, the Yankees and Blue Jays compiled more punch outs than Mike Tyson did in his entire career. After perhaps their most abysmal offensive performance of the year, epitomized by Mark Teixeira’s record tying five strikeout performance, the […]

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After the Yankees stranded runners at first and third with no outs in the bottom of the sixth, the stage was set for Javier Vazquez to wilt. And, sure enough, the Orioles immediately staged a rally against the Yankees’ righty, placing runners at second and third with one out. At that point, Girardi faced a […]

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For six and a half innings, the Yankees seemed hung over after blowing a six run lead in yesterday’s game. The offense struggled mightily against Justin Masterson, who entered the game with an 11 game losing streak and a season ERA of 6.13, while the defense contributed to both Indians run scoring rallies. Luckily for […]

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The Yankees wrapped up an abysmal Sunday-to-Sunday period with an embarrassing Subway Series loss to what had been a struggling Mets team. By going 2-6 since last Sunday’s melt down against the Twins, the Yankees have gone into a free fall and dropped out of the AL East division race and into a wild card […]

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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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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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