Anthony Volpe finished his rookie season with a .666 OPS. Through the weekend — through 1,382 career plate appearances — Volpe had a .666 OPS. The devil is in the details of that number. Notably, the more things change, the more Volpe stays the same. He was a strong defender, fine baserunner and had excellent […]

TAMPA — Before Max Fried could actually lose his no-hitter, it was lost for him in the middle of the eighth. As Fried jogged out to the mound for the bottom of the eighth working on a no-hit bid through seven innings, the official scorer announced a controversial scoring change to give the Rays their […]

TAMPA — Max Fried had his no-hitter lost for him before he could lose it for himself. The left-hander ultimately delivered a terrific performance across 7 ²/₃ innings that lifted the Yankees to a 4-0 win over the Rays on Sunday afternoon at Steinbrenner Field, but it was slightly marred by a controversial scoring change […]

The Mets just keep on rolling. They completed a four-game sweep of the Cardinals with a 7-4 victory at Citi Field on Sunday, giving them nine wins in their first 10 games in Queens this season. And thanks in part to their dominating performance over St. Louis, they’ll be in first place in the NL […]

Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay was “flabbergasted” at the official scorekeeper’s decision to change an error to a hit and end Max Fried’s bid for a no-hitter.  Kay was incredulous as he announced to the YES Network audience that official scorer Bill Matthews had changed how the ground ball that Rays outfielder Chandler Simpson had hit […]

Clay Holmes has noticed at Citi Field that the winds can swirl at field level, never more so for him than Sunday afternoon, when it was particularly swooshing his staple sinker. Not far in Holmes’ past, he would have bulled forward. He, after all, was employed one inning at a time. And he mainly threw […]

Padres designated hitter Luis Arraez had to be placed on a stretcher and carted off the field after he collided with Astros second baseman Mauricio Dubón, who had been covering second base during the top of the first bunt attempt.  Arraez was able to move his limbs, but the nature of his injury wasn’t immediately […]

Juan Soto didn’t run into many rough spells in his lone season with the Yankees, so there’s no telling how The Bronx crowd would have reacted if Soto got off to a slow start. But Soto acknowledged he was caught off guard by the ovation he received Friday night from the Citi Field crowd in […]

TAMPA — So much for being a defensive specialist. Yes, Trent Grisham has continued to play top-notch defense in center field, but he has also continued to swing a hot bat, making it difficult for manager Aaron Boone to keep him out of the lineup. Grisham did it again in a 4-0 win over the […]

TAMPA — If Aaron Judge comes up one home run short of breaking his own AL record this season, Sunday will live in infamy. The Yankees star appeared to have crushed his eighth home run of the season in the eighth inning Sunday at Steinbrenner Field, a moonshot down the left field line, only for […]