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Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 58th home run, going deep for the fifth straight game to help the New York Yankees wrap up their second AL East title in three years with a 10-1 victory ...
The Yankees will start ace right-hander Gerrit Cole in Game 1. The 2023 Cy Young Award winner posted an 8-5 record with a 3.41 ERA this season. Cole missed time with right-elbow inflammation ...
The New York Yankees, including Aaron Judge, center top, celebrate after clinching the American League East title in a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in New ...
The Yankees underperformed throughout the regular season and were 41–41, with 80 games left to play on July 4. The Yankees went 51–29 in their final 80 games including a season-high 13 game winning streak, their longest winning streak since 1961. On October 3, the Yankees clinched a Wild Card berth with a 1–0 win against the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Yankees continued to win games, and by the time they met Boston for a pivotal four-game series at Fenway Park in early September, the Yankees were four games behind the Red Sox. The Yankees swept the Red Sox in what became known as the "Boston Massacre", winning the games 15–3, 13–2, 7–0, and 7–4.
The Yankees narrowly held on by a 4–3 score to take a 2–1 series lead. The Red Sox would win Game 4, while the Yankees took Game 5 to go up 3–2 in the series headed back to New York. The Red Sox won a high-scoring Game 6 to force a seventh game.
The red-hot 2024 Royals face the loaded 2024 Yankees in Game 1 of an American League Division Series on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. The Royals arrive as popular underdogs, while the Yankees are ...
Outfielder Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak in the 1941 season, which remains an MLB record. Jack Chesbro holds three AL records that he set in 1904: games won, games started, and complete games. Outfielder Aaron Judge set an AL record with 62 home runs in 2022, beating the mark of 61 that fellow Yankee Roger Maris posted in 1961.