“With all the stuff that I went through in ’14, I talked about how dark those days were”. “Years where we won 100 games, we were just playing to our expectations, but this year, the last eight months this team has come together and played for each other and not for personal statistics”.
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“You’re in the dance, anything can happen”, Rodriguez said. See when his next throwing session will be and go from there.
Manager Joe Girardi said Headley was feeling stiffness and his back locked up after the team’s 11-inning loss Wednesday.
“This was really rewarding because I’ve had a chance to be on a lot of teams that have made the postseason fortunately and this one was probably as much of a grind as any one“, he said.
Hill now faces his former team for the first time since being designated for assignment in August 2014.
That turned out to be a huge boost for the Yankees, who watched Warren pitch three scoreless innings after taking over for CC Sabathia to start the sixth, getting the ball to Dellin Betances in the ninth. “I feel great right now and ready to help out”. “It was a big lift for us“. “Like I said, we wanted to be safe and not be stupid and not rush anything and stay healthy”.
The Yankees topped the Boston Red Sox 4-1 in the Bronx to clinch an American League Wild Card spot and a berth in Major League Baseball’s postseason.
When it was pointed out to Girardi that his team actually had a seven-game lead over the division on July 28, only to finish five games back of the Toronto Blue Jays, a 12-game swing in the standings, the manager refused to see that as a negative. “You think about 10,000 wins, the championships, the ideal game during the World Series, the flawless games during the season and what’s been accomplished here, but 10,000 wins is the mark of a consistent franchise”.
Masahiro Tanaka, who came off a hamstring injury to start Wednesday night’s game, told Girardi Thursday that he felt fine and will throw his normal bullpen session before a possible wild-card playoff start on Tuesday night. As I said, we had a lot of challenges that we had to overcome.
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Back from a season-long performance-enhancing-drug suspension, Alex Rodriguez assumed vintage form and provided a jolt by crushing more than 30 home runs for the first time since 2010.
