Tigers 5, Yankees 4: Joe Torre says the Yankees are "all right," and that's a good description. They're not in great shape, but they're not quite foundering. Phil Hughes allowed three early Tigers home runs -- while going in a pitchers' park -- and the Yankees couldn't make it up against Detroit's bullpen. After the Red Sox swept the White Sox, the Yankees sit 7 1/2 behind Boston in the American League East. That wild......

Yankees 6, Blue Jays 4: The Yankees used some home runs and a bloop single to beat Toronto. Alex Rodriguez hit his 32nd home run of the season and career home run number 496, but it was Andy Phillips who delivered the go-ahead runs. With two outs in the 6th inning, Phillips broke a tie game with bloop single to center, scoring Jorge Posada and Robinson Cano. The two teams combined for six home runs......

In the spirit of this weekend's Yankees-Red Sox series, Gothamist suggests you go to the First Street Gallery in Chelsea to visit sculptor Daniel Edwards's death masks of Ted Williams. The Baseball Hall of Fame Red Sox legend who batted .406 in the 1941 season became more famous in his after life when it turned out his head had been cut off when he was cryogenically frozen. Edwards had spent time with Williams (while he......

The Yankees came into the weekend riding a hot streak and left it as fodder for their critics. As they won ten straight and fifteen out of seventeen, critics pointed to the quality of their opposition. After losing two out of three to the Red Sox and being humiliated 17-1 by them on Saturday, the Yankees will have to listen to those grumbles for the next month. Friday night, the Yankees managed to overcome......

The Yankees and Alex Rodriguez will be sorry to see Detroit leave town. Three games, three victories, the last one courtesy of a go-ahead home run by A Rod in the fifth inning. For the series, Rodriguez went 5-8 with 3 homers and six RBI’s. Not a bad start to the week. Kevin Brown continued his resurgence, pitching seven innings for his fourth straight win. Since getting bombed by the Devil Rays on May 6th,......

The Yankees opened the 2005 season with a 9-2 win. Randy Johnson led the way with six innings of stellar pitching, though Hideki Matsui should be credited with an outstanding defensive play that prevented the Red Sox from scoring more than one run in the top of the second. Every Yankee starter contributed a hit or an RBI in the victory and Tanyon Sturtze added two innings of spotless relief while the outcome was still......

It took a while, but Randy Johnson looks like he's ready to start the season. In his final Spring Training start, Johnson pitched six scoreless innings on Thursday. He allowed one hit, one walk and picked up eight strikeouts against the regulars for the Atlanta Braves. While Johnson would normally have started next Tuesday's pre-season game against the Red Sox, he will throw against Yankee farmhands instead. Johnson is scheduled to pitch in the Opening......

The Red Sox and David Wells have agreed to a two-year contract worth at least $8 million. Wells, the former girthy Yankee starter will join the Red Sox after one season with the San Diego Padres when he was 12-8 with a 3.73 ERA in 31 games pitched. Before joining the Padres, the 41 year old Wells had back surgery after two seasons with the Yankees. For those two seasons. 2002-03, Wells was 34-14 in......

Hope that they don't get swept. With three of the four games against the Padres, the Mets have managed to lose three in a row, but thy can prevent a sweep this afternoon as they play one more game against the suddenly hot Padres. Memo to teams in the hunt for the playoffs - if you're playing the Mets, you have a good chance of picking up a few games. The Mets have now lost......

Down to their last out of yesterday's game, the Yankees trailed the San Diego Padres 2-0. Trevor Hoffman was on the mound, attempting to get his 15th consecutive save when Hideki Matsui and Kenny Lofton hit back-to-back solo home runs to tie the game. In the 12th inning, the Yankees gave up 3 runs and had to come back again, winning the game 6-5 (box score), on a Ruben Sierra sacrifice fly. It was the......

Derek Jeter is so sad over losing to the Marlins, Gothamist started to think about some movies various members of the Yankees organization should watch in the off season. Derek Jeter: A League of Their Own and Rushmore. There's no crying in baseball! And when you find something you love, you keep doing it. Roger Clemens: The Rookie. Hideki Matsui: Mr. Baseball. Tom Selleck playing baseball in Japan - it's the Lost in Translation......