This past week’s Yankees power outage prompted discussion of toughness and grit and heart concerning your favorite $198-million ballclub, and more often than not, it’s all a bunch of garbage. They’re baseball players. Sometimes they come through, sometim...
Your number of the day at Yankee Stadium was zero. Zero runs for the home team. Zero hits with runners in scoring position. Zero games above .500. Zero games out of last place. Have these Yankees zeroed out? That’s three straight losses and six out of th...
Yesterday brought more missed opportunities with runners in scoring position and another home-team loss at Yankee Stadium, so we welcome you to the Great Bronx Drought of 2012. Your reigning American League East champions fell to the Reds, 6-5, for their...
Have you perused your baseball standings lately? Call it “Revenge of the Tired and Poor.” Nine teams run payrolls of $100 million or more. Of those nine, only two — reigning pennant winners Texas and St. Louis — stand at five games or more over .500. Of ...
The Mariners, one of the American League’s lesser offensive teams, had just jabbed Andy Pettitte for four runs, seven hits and three walks over 6 1/3 innings. Which led to the Yankees’ first loss in four games, 6-2. Which made Pettitte’s highly anticipat...
Don't look now, but the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are slowly climbing their way out of the basement in the American League West. The Halos were victorious Friday night, defeating the Mariners 6-4 in the second test game of a four-game series. Their t...
The Angels still have quite a hill to climb if they want to challenge for the American League West title. Getting out of last place would be a great start. Los Angeles can do just that tonight as it opens a four-game series against the third-place Seattl...
The Detroit Tigers were supposed to run away with the American League Central this season. That certainly hasn't been the case yet and tonight they try to avoid falling even further back in the division when they play the second of three games against th...
SEATTLE â Josh Hamilton's domination of the American League earlier this month was aided by his dominant eye. That eye, Hamilton's left, hasn't been as good lately because his stance has closed and kept him from being able to recognize pitches as easily ...
The Cleveland Indians get a chance to show the Detroit Tigers they are in fact for real this evening when the American League Central rivals start a three-game series at Progressive Field. The Indians, who lost their final 10 meetings to Detroit last sea...
May, 26, 2012 May 26 12:02 PM CT Reigning American League Pitcher of the Month Jake Peavy takes the mound today against the Cleveland Indians after throwing 6 1/3 scoreless innings a week ago against the Chicago Cubs for his fifth win of the season. Dere...
(Sports Network) - Don't look now, but the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are slowly climbing their way out of the basement in the American League West. The Halos were victorious Friday night, defeating the Mariners 6-4 in the second test game of a four-g...
July 23, 1974National League 7, American League 2Three Rivers Stadium in PittsburghVoters obviously knew what they were doing for this All-Star Game, as Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey made the starting lineup by a write-in vote.The voters’ faith in G...
July 19, 1977National League 7, American League 5Yankee Stadium in New YorkThe National League wasted no time in taking control of this game as the Reds Joe Morgan led off the game with a home run against the Orioles Jim Palmer. After the Dodgers Steve G...
The question is being whispered around Cleveland, and in the other corners of the American League: are the Indians for real? They seem to be very real, at least through the first two months of the season, standing fourth in the American League and leadin...
