Yankees humbled in the Bronx
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The New York Yankees are comfortably the richest team in baseball. Their $180m annual wage bill is more than double that of most of their counterparts, and they have many of the game&#39;s most luminous stars in their line-up.
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NEW YORK -- With Thursday night&#39;s epic defeat, the Yankees&#39; hold on first place in the American League East became increasingly tenuous.
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The Yankees climbed into the pennant race by beating mediocre teams after the All-Star Game break. Now they have built enough confidence to hang with the elite.
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A year ago, Mike Mussina lost to the Minnesota Twins in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. Pessimist&#39;s panic swept through the Bronx.
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Minneapolis -- They were down by four runs. They were five outs from defeat. Hmmm. You think the Yankees were actually worried about losing?
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If New Yorkers were not already aware their beloved Yankees had completed the worst post-season collapse in Major League history, their media quickly reminded them on Thursday.
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New York was in shock today after their beloved baseball team the Yankees suffered a surprise defeat to arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox.
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The New York Yankees needed help to clinch their ninth consecutive AL East title last night, but that didn't stop them from celebrating like first-timers.
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Late comebacks, close wins. The New York Yankees are beginning to resemble the team everyone became familiar with for the past decade.
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The New York Yankees are struggling to score and their once-huge lead in the AL East is suddenly shrinking. Manager Joe Torre refuses to panic just yet.
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Gary Sheffield hit another clutch homer and Derek Jeter learned his elbow is just bruised. Not a bad night for the struggling New York Yankees.
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To battle your way down the interminable ramps leading to the exits at Yankee Stadium after Friday night&#39;s game, you would have thought the days of a last-place finish in a 10-team league from 1966 were back to haunt us.
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The hits and runs kept coming, spinning by on the scoreboard as fast as symbols on a slot machine. It wasn&#39;t just a rout, it was an epic defeat, the most one-sided in the 101-year history of the New York Yankees.
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After getting swept in three games at Kansas City last year, the New York Yankees trailed the Royals by four runs in the eighth inning. Then they steamrolled the Royals with a rally to remember.
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The once-mighty New York Yankees are  unraveling these days on the field and the Yankee family seems  to be fraying at the seams during the Bronx Bombers&#39; nose-dive  in the standings.
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The New York Yankees battled to a 9-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday, the win lifting the struggling Bronx Bombers out of last place in the American League East division.
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NEW YORKâJust three outs from getting swept out of the American League championship series three nights earlier, the Red Sox finally humbled the dreaded Yankees, winning Game Seven in a 10-3 shocker on Wednesday night to become the first major league