The Yankees, at this moment, are dealing with more problems with youth than age. It has been common to wonder year after year if a team that relies so much on older players, as the Yankees do annually, has reached a tipping point in which grayness outwei...
They had been checking their PDAs and chatting amongst themselves yesterday afternoon, sharing the back of a minibus en route to a Bronx school visit. But Raul Ibanez, Boone Logan, Russell Martin and Rafael Soriano turned silent and listened when Lenny C...
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...
Even a steady rain couldn’t wash away the boos that poured from the Yankee Stadium seats last night. Early in a 6-0 loss to the lowly Royals the denizens booed Alex Rodriguez for fanning with the bases loaded. Late in the third straight defeat and sixth ...
One bolt from an old bat was all it took for Hiroki Kuroda to grab a step on the up escalator and turn Jesus Montero’s home run against his former team into a footnote. Until Raul Ibanez crushed a first-pitch fastball from Felix Hernandez in the sixth in...
NEW YORK – Joe Girardi was frustrated. Six losses in seven games left the New York Yankees last in the AL East. "I'm hoping this is rock-bottom," the manager said. No, that's not this week. That was on May 20, 2008, 45 games into Girardi's first season a...
NEW YORK – Felipe Paulino is becoming quite the regular at blanking the New York Yankees. Pitching out of trouble with ease, Paulino pitched shutout ball against the Yankees for the second time in 17 days. Mike Moustakas and Jeff Francoeur backed him wit...
They are like two parts of a whole, though other than their perfectly bald heads, there's little similarity between Raul Ibanez and Andruw Jones. Jones, 35, was a star as a teenager, while Ibanez, 39, didn't become a regular until age 29. Ibanez, a grega...
Bronx, NY – Raul Ibanez belted a go-ahead three-run homer off Felix Hernandez and the New York Yankees opened a three-game series with a 6-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night Ibanez's homer made it 4-2 in the sixth and Andruw Jones added a tw...
Bronx, NY – Raul Ibanez hit two home runs, Ivan Nova threw seven solid innings and David Robertson anxiously closed out the Yankees' 5-3 win over the Rays in a rain-soaked series opener between the division foes. Nova (4-1) allowed two runs on six hits w...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Mark Teixeira hit a two-run homer and a solo shot among his career high-tying four hits to back CC Sabathia's sixth win of the year, and the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 9-2 on Saturday for their fourth straight win....
OAKLAND -- The Yankees envisioned Raul Ibanez as their everyday designated hitter against right-handers who would play in the field occasionally. Instead, the veteran has spent more time patrolling the outfield. Saturday marked Ibanez's 23rd start of the...
Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesEric Chavez joins Raul Ibanez in congratulating Nick Swisher following his home run in the Yankees' 6-3 win over the A's last night. OAKLAND -- Eric Chavez's framed photograph still hangs in the runway leading to the playing field h...
Bases loaded, no outs and they still couldn't score. Robinson Cano looked at strike three, Alex Rodriguez swung at strike three and Raul Ibanez flied out deep. Even when they hit the ball hard, it's right at someone, prompting captain Derek Jeter to say:...
NEW YORK -- Brett Gardner's injury has made it difficult for manager Joe Girardi to find time off for his other outfielders, such as center fielder Curtis Granderson and right fielder Raul Ibanez. Granderson specifically has been forced to shoulder a hea...
