Mariners’ bats silenced again in loss to Royals that cuts into wild-card lead KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New city, new time zone, same stinkin’ struggles for the Seattle Mariners. Tribune News Service · Sep 24, 2022
Yankees beat Red Sox, 5-4, push win streak to five games NEW YORK — The crowd packed Yankee Stadium to see home runs Friday night. With Aaron Judge one homer away from tying the 61-year-old American League and Yankees record of 61, the ballpark saw homers, but not the ones they wanted. An eighth-inning RBI-single from Jose Trevino rallied the Yankees… Tribune News Service · Sep 24, 2022
The Undeniable Thrill of Waiting for Aaron Judge to Hit 62 I’ve never experienced anything like the atmosphere at Yankee Stadium the last three nights. The Yankees won all three games, the first on a walk-off grand slam and the third via a walk-off RBI single in the 10th inning to clinch a playoff berth. Yet, all of that felt secondary… Sports Illustrated · Sep 23, 2022
Guardians sweep White Sox White Sox (76-74) lose 4-2, fall seven games behind AL Central leaders with 12 games to play. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 23, 2022
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge now odds-on favorite to win Triple Crown as part of historic season NEW YORK — How high can he go? Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022
SI:AM | That Yankees Ninth Inning Had Everything No. 60 was just the beginning. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21, 2022
Yankees earn comeback 9-8 walk-off victory against Pirates as Aaron Judge hits home run No. 60 NEW YORK — Maybe the ghost of the Babe was watching over them Tuesday night. Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022
Judge Hits Homer No. 60, Stanton Smashes Walk-Off Grand Slam The two Yankees sluggers combined for a magical moment on Tuesday night. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21, 2022
Aaron Judge hits 60th homer, within 1 of Maris' AL record Aaron Judge hit his 60th home run, matching Babe Ruth and moving within one of Roger Maris’ American League season record The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022
Larry Stone: Why Mariners' Scott Servais should win AL manager of year On June 19 you could have gotten much better odds that Scott Servais would be the third manager fired in 2022 (after the Phillies' Joe Girardi and Angels' Joe Maddon) than him winning American League Manager of the Year. Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022
Two of baseball's biggest stars are closing in on major home run marks The Yankees' Aaron Judge and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols are each closing in on a major home run milestone, bringing life to every at-bat as their teams near the end of the regular season. WEKU · Sep 20, 2022
Brandon Woodruff shuts down Aaron Judge, Yankees as Brewers get 4-1 win MILWAUKEE — The Yankees are expecting reinforcements soon, but with 17 games left in the regular season the question is do they have enough time to be a playoff contender. Saturday night, they didn’t look like it as Willy Adames and the Brewers beat them again, this one a 4-1… Tribune News Service · Sep 17, 2022
The MLB Playoff Race Is Getting Wild With Three Weeks to Go We are three weeks away from the start of the playoffs, with the first game of all four wild-card series scheduled back-to-back-to-back. You can be sure that MLB will market the event as baseball’s version of the first day of March Madness. (Fall Frenzy, anyone?) But regardless of how well… Sports Illustrated · Sep 16, 2022
Aaron Judge inching closer to breaking Maris’ record, hits home runs 56 and 57 in 7-6 win against Red Sox Opposing teams still choose to pitch to Aaron Judge and he keeps hitting bombs. Tribune News Service · Sep 14, 2022
Sports Illustrated · Sep 14, 2022 Aaron Judge Inches Closer to History With Homers 56, 57 The MVP favorite’s pursuit of the American League home run record got a big boost on Tuesday.
Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022 Rays deliver without Drew Rasmussen, beat Red Sox ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays were expecting that Drew Rasmussen, the reigning American League pitcher of the month, was due to deliver another strong start Tuesday against the Red Sox.
Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022 Matt Calkins: Meetings? A melee? Pitching? Answers vary on how hot Mariners made a midseason turnaround. A journalism titan named Larry Stone tweeted Sunday that the Mariners were 47-19 since dropping 10 games below .500 after a mid-June series against the Angels. That was the same pace at which the Mariners won in 2001, when they tied the MLB record with 116 victories.
Tribune News Service · Sep 6, 2022 Bo Bichette hits 3 homers as Blue Jays beat Orioles, 8-4, to sweep doubleheader, extend lead in wild-card standings BALTIMORE — The Orioles’ race to the postseason likely runs through the Toronto Blue Jays. In that sense, Monday’s doubleheader against their American League East foe represented tripping out of the gate.
The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2022 MLB’s Art Shires: hitter, peacock, boaster, boxer and accused killer The Texan was a hothead who beat up his own manager, pursued an off-season fighting career and was implicated in the deaths of two people
Chicago Tribune · Sep 4, 2022 Dylan Cease loses no-hit bid with two outs in 9th, settling for one-hit shutout in 13-0 White Sox win CHICAGO — Dylan Cease has been nearly unhittable at times this season while putting himself in contention for the American League Cy Young Award.
Tribune News Service · Sep 3, 2022 Rays beat Yankees, cut AL East lead to 5 games ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays did what they could Friday afternoon to tamp down expectations and defuse the hype over the weekend series with the struggling Yankees. Almost to a man, they insisted they were focused only on winning Friday’s game and not the rapidly shrinking margin between them…
Tribune News Service · Sep 3, 2022 Adley Rutschman’s pinch-hit walk helps Orioles beat A’s, 5-2, in Gunnar Henderson’s home debut BALTIMORE — Before opening a series with the worst team in the American League, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde was faced with a series of questions about his lineup. It featured neither Cedric Mullins nor Adley Rutschman, typically the top two hitters in his starting nine, partly for rest and partly…
Tribune News Service · Sep 1, 2022 Mariners shut out Tigers for the sweep, move to 15 games above .500 DETROIT — This wasn’t like the uneven and frustrating three-game series in Texas and Oakland on the previous road trip, where they managed to win just one game in each.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 1, 2022 What History Tells Us About Aaron Judge’s Pursuit of 61 Home Runs Let’s look at how his season compares to the other players who were on similar homer paces entering September.
Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022 Jose Siri steps up, Shawn Armstrong steps in as Rays beat Marlins MIAMI — Jose Siri had himself quite a night in Tuesday’s 7-2 win over the Marlins.