NY Yankees

The Diamondbacks broke it open in the twelfth and beat the Yanks 6-2.

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And the bad news continues with the Yankee captain.  Derek Jeter had a CT scan of his injured ankle and it revealed a small crack.  "We're looking at, in terms of speculation when Derek Jeter will be back with us, sometime after the All-Star break," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman told ESPNNewYork.com.

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Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada, two core Yankee players from the Joe Torre era, are long gone.  Mariano Rivera, another quiet leader by example, is retiring after this season.  Andy Pettitte is near the end.  And the Yankee captain, Derek Jeter, won't be back in the lineup until who knows when and is nearing 40.  Leadership used to be a huge piece of the Yankees' winning puzzle.  That leadership is dwindling away.

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The Yankees are battling through injuries and age on a game by game basis.  Many around baseball think that if they hang-in until Memorial Day, the team will be almost fully healthy for the stretch run

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In honoring the victims of the Boston Bombing the New York Yankees proved that at certain moments we can and do come together.

The bitter rivals, who keep no secret of their distaste for each other, just ask the fans, put aside their decades old hatred and played the ultimate  Boston sports song, Sweet Caroline, after the 4th inning of the Yanks home game Tuesday night after the 3rd inning of their game against the Diamondbacks, Sweet Caroline is a song Yankee fans loathe as Boston hates Sinatra's New York, New York

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It seems fitting that the last player in Major League Baseball history to wear #42 is Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer of all-time and one of the top Yankees of all-time.  The rest of baseball has retired #42 in honor of Jackie Robinson.  Robinson not only fought racism and all sorts of barriers while integrating baseball in 1947, he represented class and dignity and professionalism.  

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Interleague play has turned into an unbalanced schedule of interleague play and it has never before been this early.  Early as in Opening Day for the Angels and Reds.  Early as in NOW for the New York Yankees

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As I predicted (once in a while a blind squirrel finds a nut), the Yankees took two of three from rival Baltimore in a big series considering that Andy Pettitte's start was pushed back due to back spasms.  Here is how New York did it.  

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A poor outing from Phil Hughes proved too much for the Yankees to overcome, they fell to the Orioles 5-3. 

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At this pace the sports fan will be worn out by Sunday night's Orioles-Yankees or Lakers- Rockets game. A 24 hours of HUGE events, and some not so huge but worth the mention, have this sports weekend off to a crazy start

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Another day, another injury concern for the Yankees. During the club’s 5-2 win over the Orioles, Eduardo Nunez was forced to leave the game after being struck in the wrist by an errant fastball.

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The Yankees' season is a couple weeks deep.  Plenty of story lines have taken center stage for the pinstripes.  Andy Pettitte is my #1 story line.  What is yours?  Vote here: