brett gardner

The New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner has won the American League player of the week after a chain of stellar performances. Over the last seven days Gardner has a batting avg of .478 with 5 home-runs, and 7 RBI's. This includes his amazing stretch against the Texas Rangers where the outfielder had  four homers in three nights...

BOSTON (AP) — Brett Gardner had a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning for one of his three hits, helping the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 8-7 on Sunday night. Former Red Sox infielder Stephen Drew had a pair of hits and drove in four runs in his third game with theYankees since he was sent there at the trading deadline...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Brett Gardner had four hits to go with a tremendous sliding catch and the New York Yankees held on for a 12-11 victory at Texas on Tuesday night in spite of J.P. Arencibia's seven RBIs. Gardner had a leadoff homer and two doubles, and he reached base twice in a seven-run sixth that put the Yankees ahead to stay...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Yu Darvish struck out eight in seven innings for his 10th victory and J.P. Arencibia had a tiebreaking two-run single for the Texas Rangers in a 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Monday night. Darvish (10-6) shouted out and pumped his fist after his final strikeout, when Brian McCann swung and missed to end the seventh with two runners on base...

NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon McCarthy threw six more solid innings, fellow newcomer Chase Headley delivered another timely hit and the New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 4-2 Thursday for their sixth win in seven games. Brett Gardner doubled, scored a run and drove in one as the Yankees kept up their push since the All-Star break...

NEW YORK (AP) — Brett Gardner hit a tiebreaking homer off All-Star ace Yu Darvish, and the New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 2-1 Wednesday night in a rain-shortened game called in the fifth inning under bizarre circumstances. David Phelps (5-4) pitched out of a jam just before the storm, and Francisco Cervelli doubled twice to help the Yankees win for the fifth time in six games on a 10-game

BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Davis hit a two-run homer to back a strong pitching effort by Kevin Gausman, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 3-1 Sunday night in a game called by rain after 4 1/2 innings. The Orioles scored all their runs in the fourth inning and Gausman (4-2) got three straight outs in the fifth...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Shane Greene allowed two runs in six innings for his first major league win, All-Star Dellin Betances earned his first career save and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-3 on Monday night. Greene (1-0) didn't allow a hit until Nick Swisher's two-out homer in the fifth...

NEW YORK (AP) — Masahiro Tanaka gave up a home run to Jose Reyes on the first pitch of the game, then earned his major league-high 11th victory as the New York Yankees beat Toronto 3-1 Tuesday night for their 14th straight home win over the Blue Jays...

The Yankees have been around for a long time. They officially moved to New York in 1903. They've got 27 World Series Championships. They've had some of the best players to ever play the game. Needless to say, there is a lot of history there...

The Yankees had a busy weekend, signing injured reliever Andrew Bailey and more notably, reaching an extension with outfielder Brett Gardner. The extension for Gardner is reported to be at four years and $52 million. He will play this season under his existing contract, with the extension kicking in after the season ends...

And again the baseball world was centered around Alex Rodriguez.  And again it was Yankees-Red Sox.  And again it was at Fenway Park.