Was Freddy Garcia offering a preemptive facepalm in response to the moves Joe Girardi would make following his departure? (AP) Well, I was wrong about Max Scherzer, who kept the ball in the park and kept the Yankees hitless for five and a third innings on Sunday. Freddy Garcia didn’t pitch too ...

I am pleased to note that the last Google search that brought someone here was “Babe Ruth+Dead+Casket.” Surely the person doing the search meant “Angels+Dead+Casket,” or maybe even “Red Sox,” although that last remains to be seen. One item I remain more confused about ...

Derek Jeter bunting is usually a bad idea, particularly when the likelihood of him grounding into a double play is overrated. (AP) I said I wasn’t going to flog the dead horse of Tuesday night’s ninth-inning Derek Jeter bunt, but I just can’t quite leave well enough alone. Because the ...

In the bottom of the ninth inning of Tuesday night’s game against the A’s at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees trailed 6-3 entering the frame. Jorge Posada led off with a solo home run off of A’s closer Andrew Bailey, closing the deficit to 6-4. Russell Martin followed with a double, and Brett Gardner ...

…Include me, but not Joe Girardi. Back in 2007, when he was managing the Marlins, Girardi brought back team ace Josh Johnson after a rain delay of over an hour. There is no knowing if Johnson’s subsequent Tommy John surgery was directed related to that incautious decision–Johnson has ...

"I don't think I'm old or modern, I don't think I think I'm thinking, it doesn't matter what I'm thinking... hammer, sickle, Mao Tse Tung!" -- Lou Reed In the grand scheme of things, the difference between the best and worst batting order is very small. If the difference ...

Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson help pay tribute to trainer Gene Monahan on Old Timers' Day. (AP) I spent a loooong Sunday at Yankee Stadium, arriving in the Bronx in time for the pre-Old Timers’ Day press conferences hailing first-time participants Lou Piniella, Bernie Williams and Joe Torre ...

Criticizing Joe Girardi on last night’s removal of Bartolo Colon is the worst kind of second-guessing. If  Mariano Rivera had just done what he usually does, there would be nothing to criticize. Yes, Colon was dominant, and yes, he had thrown fewer than 90 pitches, but this is a guy who had been ...

“On that list are twenty-eight men asking to be excused from tomorrow’s mission, three times more than normal. They gave a lot of reasons, colds mostly. Most of them haven’t got colds, and that doesn’t mean they’ve suddenly gone yellow. It just means that they’re getting their bellies full… ...

Cut it out! (AP) One of my cherished baseball memories is of being at an A’s-Yankees game at the Stadium and having the perfect seats along the first-base line to view Alfredo Griffin being picked off. Getting picked off, along with being caught stealing, is what Griffin did best. In the 1980s, Griffin ...

A.J. Burnett pitched better on Wednesday night than his final line suggested. (AP) Through the first two innings of Wednesday night’s game against the Orioles, A.J. Burnett put together a real Granny Gooden effort*, one in which he navigated the opposing lineup with all of the grace of an elderly ...

Yesterday’s rain out was the worst thing that possibly could have happened, given that it gave me more time to think about Tuesday’s miserable loss. It also gave me time to watch an old picture on TCM, one in which Walter Huston, playing Jimmy Stewart’s father, has an emotional death scene, which ...