A New York Yankees Diary – Day Nine – September 10th, 2026

Last game against the Colorado Rockies for the 2026 season. Let’s face it, the Rockies are going nowhere until next year, at the very least, and with the Yankees having the playoffs in their future, this is an important game to win in the hope we can close the gap on the Tampa Bay Rays, but New York winning the American League East division is a slim chance whatever the outcome.

The Yankees have won 83 games to this juncture, so there is no 100 game win season this year. They have done well, but there have been too few runs, and too many injuries. You look at their team with the absence of Aaron Judge being once again a factor and you wonder where the runs will come from – Judge is benched as the Yankees try to gently work him up to full fitness – but, hey, the Yankees can always surprise you.

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The New York Yankees in August – Part One – The Batters (2026)

The New York Yankees in August were indifferent – neither good, nor bad, just lukewarm. They started the month at 62-48 and two games behind the Tampa Bay Rays, in 2nd place in the American League East. They finished August at 78-60 and still two games behind. Their monthly record 16-12. Lukewarm.

Aaron Judge still out injured. Clay Bellinger also on the injjured list for the majority of the month.

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The New York Yankees in July – Part One – The Batters (2026)

The Yankees with a July record of 14-11 remained in second place in the American League East. They started the month two and a half games behind Tampa Bay. They ended the month two and a half games behind Tampa Bay. However, the Boston Red Sox were now casting a worrying shadow behind them – as Boston produced a 21-4 record in this seventh month of the year.

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The New York Yankees in June – Part One – The Batters (2026)

4-1 (March)

16-10 (April)

16-12 (May)

12-14 (June)

Things are not getting better for the New York Yankees. Most of their batters are batting below a .250 batting average in recent weeks. Starting pitchers are struggling. The players they depend upon are being added to a lengthening injury list.

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The New York Yankees in May – Part One – The Batters (2026)

In May, the Yankees won 16 and lost 12. This was a slight decline on their April perrformance and with the Tampa Bay Rays really hitting their stride the Yankees went from 1.5 games ahead in the American League East to 1.5 games behind. The division was tied by May 9. They then drifted out to five and a half games behind by the 22nd.

They then won 6 of the next 7 games and closed that gap.

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The New York Yankees in March / April – Part One – The Batters (2026)

New York Yankees – March 4-1.

New York Yankees – April 16-10

At the end of March, they were in a tie for first place in the American League. By the end of April, they had opened a lead of 1.5 games.

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The Best New York Yankees of 2025

Each season, we award to players’ rankings according to outstanding performances during the season. Using this system, here’s how the Batters and Pitchers of the New York Yankees placed:

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The New York Yankees in October – Part One – The Batters (2025)

The Yankees only just failed to win the American League East. And if they had done, they would have achieved a bye through the wild card playoffs and progressed straight through to the American League Division Series.

As it worked out, they did get to that Division series, but when they arrived they found themselves hopelessly over-matched by the Toronto Blue Jays – the very team that they had tied for the top position in the American League Eastern division. Let’s look at which players left them in that position, first considering the guys with the bats.

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The New York Yankees in September – Part One – The Batters (2025)

March & April – 18-13

May – 17-9

June – 13-14

July – 12-13

August – 16-12

September? Who knew…

But this was a crucial time for the Yankees to produce a month like May or August and certainly not like June or July.

It was during those months that they had let the Toronto Blue Jays narrow the gap and eventually pass them.

Now they needed to more than match the Canadian team blow-for-blow and in so doing take the division and also earn a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

Let’s look at who did well in September – firstly among the batters…

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A New York Yankees Diary – Day Twenty-Eighth – September 28th, 2025

And so we came to the last day of the season…

Not only did the Yankees need to win to clinch the bye through the first round of the playoffs, but they needed the Toronto Blue Jays to lose in their final game – against the Tampa Bay Rays, who had struggled almost as much in 2025 as the Yankees’ opponents on the final day – the Baltimore Orioles.

For the Yankees, it would be Luis Gil on the mound. This was a role that indicated to him that if the Yankees didn’t bypass the first round of those playoffs, he might not even make the roster for the Wildcard series. This then was a crucial game for him as he sought to show that he was worth a relief role and a spot on the roster as a starter for the second series.

Meanwhile, Kyle Brandish would be playing his last game of the season for Baltimore and an opportunity to improve on his 1-1 record in 2025 as he closed out his fourth year in the Majors.

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