Tag Archives: New York Yankees

Weekly Hit Ground Ball: Upton away

Hitting home runs in a homecoming game

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Weekly Hit Ground Ball: Injuries and Bad Karma

Whilst it’s normally just perception rather than a meaningful trend, it often seems that when one player goes down to an injury, their team is then hit by further setbacks

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Weekly Hit Ground Ball: From coast to coast

The recent trade of Justin Upton from Arizona to Atlanta

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A 3-0 hole

For once this season, expecting the unexpected didn’t quite work out

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Keeping score on a train

I was stuck on a train on early Sunday evening with my pocket DAB radio at least allowing me to drift off to Toronto. The Blue Jays were hosting the Yankees and thanks to BBC 5 Live Sports Extra I could listen in while on the move

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Ump getting the hump

Catchers beware: upset Major League umpire Laz Diaz at your peril

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Pujols booed and Rivera suffers from the closer curse

It’s already been a dramatic week in MLB, from the high of Jered Weaver’s no-hitter to the low of Mariano Rivera’s knee injury

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Scorecards in Action: Yankees-Red Sox 20 April 2012

Friday 20 April marked the 100 year anniversary of the first game at Fenway Park. With the Yankees in town, it felt like a good time to try out a more colourful way of keeping score

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Pettite joins Scholes in the un-retired club

Just like Man Utd’s Paul Scholes, Andy Petttitte has found that nothing can compare with playing your chosen sport

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Jorge Posada retires

Jorge Posada announced his retirement on Tuesday, formally bringing to an end a seventeen year playing career spent with just one team: the New York Yankees

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