yankees recap

It only took one early mistake from Hiroki Kuroda to decide the outcome of Saturday night’s game between the New York Yankees (73-53) and Cleveland Indians (55-71). Kuroda struggled through the first inning but eventually settled down and shut out the Indians for the rest of his outing, unfortunately for the Yankees Justin Masterson was just a little bit better for the Indians shutting the Yankees

After a prolonged slide, the New York Yankees needed someone to step in and turn the momentum. They were hoping that CC Sabathia, fresh off of a stint on the disabled list, would be able to provide that turn against the Cleveland Indians...

Even after being traded away from the Boston Red Sox Kevin Youkilis continues to irritate New York Yankee (72-51) fans as a member of the Chicago White Sox (67-55). On Tuesday night a Youkilis grand slam was the difference in the Yankees 7-3 loss to the White Sox...

Getty ImagesThe Yankees (72-50) started a three game series with the Chicago White Sox (66-55) on Monday night and the AL Central Division leading White Sox came out on top 9-6. After an awful start from their starting pitcher Gavin Floyd the White Sox were able to score enough runs off of Freddy Garcia and the Yankee bullpen to fight back from two separate Yankee leads...

Hiroki Kuroda continued to dominate opposing hitters in the Yankees (72-49) 4-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox (59-63) in the rubber game of the weekend series on Sunday night.  Kuroda coming off his two hit complete game shutout against Texas on Tuesday night nearly matched that performance going eight innings allowing one run on four hits and striking out four along the way...

Boston Red Sox (59-62) starter Jon Lester has struggled mightily this season but on Saturday afternoon in the Bronx it was a different story. Lester shut down the Yankees (71-49) offense in the 4-1 victory allowing only one run on five hits in seven strong innings of work...

The Yankees (70-47) and the Rangers (67-49) met for the third game of a four game series in the Bronx on Wednesday night. After a long hour and fifty minute rain delay the Yankees and the Rangers finally got the game started around 8:45...

A great pitching performance from Hiroki Kuroda and another big home run from Nick Swisher would help the Yankees Beat the Rangers 3-0.

The Yankees (68-47) opened a four game series with the AL West leading Texas Rangers (67-47) at Yankee Stadium on Monday night and the Yankees offensive power was in full effect in their 8-2 victory. The Yankees hammered on trade deadline pickup Ryan Dempster in his third start for the Rangers...

The Yankees (67-47) came into Toronto on Sunday afternoon going for the series sweep; the Blue Jays (54-60) however would not let it happen tagging Phil Hughes early and often.  Despite a 10-1 lead held by the Blue Jays at one point in the game the Yankees fought back and made it interesting but eventually lost 10-7...

The Yankees (67-46) beat the Toronto Blue Jays (53-60) for the second day in a row thanks in part to solid starting pitching this time coming from Ivan Nova. Despite his recent struggles Nova looked good on Saturday afternoon in the Yankees 5-2 win, Nova went 7 1/3 gave up two runs on five hits and struck out 10...

The Yankees (66-46) traveled to Toronto (53-59) to start a three game weekend series with the Blue Jays on Friday night and came out on top 10-4. Freddy Garcia pitched well in his six innings, but was pulled after only throwing 78 pitches for some reason...