Yankees 3, Blue Jays 4: Toronto powers their way past New York with three homeruns

The Yankees got their hits today, but it wasn't enough for them to beat the Toronto Blue Jays, who used three homeruns to power their way past New York, 4-3, in the finale of this three-game series on Sunday afternoon at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Brett Gardner put the Yankees up 1-0 just two pitches into the game with a solo homerun to right field off of Blue Jays starter JA Happ to lead...

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Game 134: More than one hit today, please

One step forward, two steps back. That seems to be the way to describe the Yankees' struggling offense this past week. After scoring eight run against the Royals on Monday, they were limited to just two runs the next day in Detroit. They put up eight more runs, all in the 3rd inning against David Price, on Wednesday, then scored just two on Thursday. And then they came into Toronto, where a five-run...

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Yankees 0, Blue Jays 2: Yankees get one-hit for the first time since 2009

The Yankees have beaten Drew Hucthinson three times this season, but on Saturday afternoon, the Bombers were only able to collect one hit in seven innings against the Blue Jays' right-hander in a 2-0 loss at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. A two-run homerun in the 1st inning by Jose Bautista off of Yankees starter Michael Pineda turned out to be the difference-maker in this one, as the Jays rebounded...

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Game 133: Just 30 games left

The Yankees are at that point in the season in which they can't afford to lose very many ballgames anymore. They took home a big win over the Toronto Blue Jays last night, scoring five runs in the 7th inning to take a 5-1 lead, as they would go on to win 6-3. The Yankees now stand seven games back of the Baltimore Orioles in the AL East, and three games back of the Detroit Tigers for the second...

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Yankees 5, Blue Jays 3: Mark Teixeira drives in three runs to snap the Yanks' losing skid

Hiroki Kuroda fell behind early, giving up a run in the 1st inning, but the Yankees rallied back, took the lead this time after kept it after losing on Tuesday night, as the Bombers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night at the Rogers Centre. Mark Teixeira told reporters after the game that is was a big win for the Yankees, who gained a...

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Game 77: Losing isn't fun, so let's stop it tonight

Coming off of a fourth straight loss on Tuesday night, the Yankees are looking to rebound tonight in the finale of a three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays, who took the second game of this series with a walk-off win on Tuesday, claiming a 7-6 win after Yangervis Solarte's wide throw to first base on a Melky Cabrera bunt scored Jose Reyes from second base to win the game. The Yankees...

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Yankees 6, Blue Jays 7: Defensive mistakes doom the Bombers in loss to Toronto

The Yankees fell behind by six runs, somehow came back to tie the game, denying Mark Buehrle his second career victory against the Yanks, but the Toronto Blue Jays were able to walk it off in the bottom of the 9th, defeating the Yankees, 7-6, on Tuesday night at the Rogers Centre, adding another game to their lead over the Bombers in the AL East. The Blue Jays struck first against Phelps in the...

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Game 76: Yankees face Mark Buehrle, who can seem to beat them

Another Yankees starter took a beating on Monday night, when the Toronto Blue Jays chased Chase Whitley out of the game after just 3.1 inning, knocking him around for eight runs on 11 hits, just a day after the Baltimore Orioles took Vidal Nuno yard three times in a 8-0 loss on Sunday. The Yankees' biggest problem isn't their starting pitching, but rather the fact that the pitchers aren't getting...

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Yankees 3, Blue Jays 8: Whitley whipped around as Yanks drop series opener in Toronto

Well it was bound to happen eventually: Chase Whitley suffered his first loss of the season since taking over in the rotation back in May, as the Toronto Blue Jays knocked him around, hard, for eight runs on 11 hits in 3.1 innings -- his shortest outing of the season -- in the Yankees 8-3 loss to Toronto in the opener of a three-game series on Friday night at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. After...

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Game 75: Derek Jeter gets the night off for opener in Toronto

The Yankees don't win games on the weekend, but they are playing pretty well during the normal work week. After falling to the Baltimore Orioles, 8-0, yesterday, the Yankees have dropped seven straight weekend games going back to June 1. On the other side of things, they enter Monday night's series opener against the Toronto Blue Jays on a 10-game. Toronto, who leads currently holds a 1.5 game...

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Yanks Close Up Road Trip With Kuroda On The Mound

The Yankees were dead, seemingly. They were in the Wild Card, although they really felt far out of it. They looked to almost have no energy on the field. having lost four in a row, including Tuesday night's 2-0 loss to the Blue Jays in Toronto. But in the 8th inning on Wednesday night, the Yankees, scoreless in their first 16 innings in Toronto this week, put together s four-run inning that no...

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Yankees Show They Still Have Some Fight Left In Them

Just when you though the Yankees might be done for this season, they got back up, chugged down some Gatorade, and sparked their bats back to life to make a four-run comeback in the 8th inning against the Blue Jays Wednesday night in Toronto. Coming into the night, the talk around the Yankees was that they weren't playing with enough engery. Alfonso Soriano said that after an off-day on Monday, the...

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Four-Run 8th Energizes Yanks' Come From Behind Win Over The Jays

There's been a lot of talk around the Yankees lately about their lack of energy on the field. Entering the 8th inning on a 16 inning scoreless streak, the Yankees' offense was hit by a bolt of lightning in what amounted to a four-run 8th inning that brought the Yanks back from a 3-0 hole to give them a 4-3 win over the Blue Jays Wednesday night in Toronto. "This team never quits," said Yankees...

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Yanks Try To Get The Offense Going Against Jays' Happ

Believe it or not, there is only 11 regular season games remaining this season for the New York Yankees, and with every game that goes by, 11 games is likely all that remains. As they enter play Wednesday just 3.5 games back of the second Wild Card, the Yankees play lately have been bad enough to keep them out of the playoffs. The Yankees finally got a good start from a starting pitcher on Tuesday...

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Yanks' Bats Give Pettitte No Support In Loss To The Jays

Somehow, the New York Yankees are still in this playoff race. And somehow, the Yankees continue to play bad baseball at a time when the can't afford to. Coming off a weekend in Boston in which the Yankees' pitchers couldn't do anything against the ferocious Red Sox lineup, Andy Pettitte continued his hot pitching lately by giving the Yankees 6.2 innings of one-run ball, but the bats couldn't do...

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Logan Has Bone Spurs In His Elbow, Hopes To Pitch This Season

After a visit with Dr. James Andrews in Florida, Yankees left-handed specialist Boone Logan has been diagnosed with bone spurs in his left elbow. For the moment, it's nothing serious, and there's currently no damage to any of the ligaments in his elbow. Logan is hoping that he'll be able to pitch again for the Yankees before this season is over, Friday at the earliest, but he will have to undergo...

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Pettitte And Yanks Begin 12-Game Playoff Run In Toronto

The New York Yankees need wins, and they need them now. The Yanks are coming off a terrible weekend in Boston the brought them three losses by a combined score of 22-7. CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda and Ivan Nova gave the Yankees starting efforts that all three would like to forget, and hopefully rebound from in their next starts. Now to mention that the bullpen wasn't very effective, although to...

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Kuroda Gets Rocked, Yanks Fall To Jays 7-2

A night after blowing out the Toronto Blue Jays 7-1, the Yankees sent Hiroki Kuroda to mound looking to capture a series victory without Robinson Cano, who is day to day with a bruise left hand. Kuroda continued his string of poor outings on the mound, giving up a season-high seven runs on nine hits, losing to the Blue Jays 7-2 Wednesday night at the Rogers Center in Toronto, Canada. "It feels like,...

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Kuroda And Yanks Go For Series Win In Toronto

The New York Yankees came as close to having their season end as possible last night when all-star second baseman Robinson Cano took a J.A. Happ fastball of his left hand, forcing him to come out of the game and undergo x-rays that, thankfully, came back negative. As of now, the Yankees are listing Cano as day to day. The Yanks have an off-day Thursday and will open up a three-game series against...

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Yanks Launch Four Home Runs, Beat Blue Jays 7-1

Let me start this recap off by saying this: three major events happened in this game -- two were good for the New York Yankees, and one was almost season altering. Even after Robinson Cano was forced to leave the game in the first inning after taking fastball from J.A. Happ off his left hand, the Yankees still went on to blowout the Toronto Blue Jays 7-1, Tuesday night at the Rogers Center. After...

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