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

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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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A New York Yankees Diary – Day Eight – September 9th, 2026

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Having taken a 1 game to zip lead in this series against the Colorado Rockies, the Yankees were hoping that Will Warren would help them secure a 2-0 lead as tonight’s game started at 7.09pm.

Jake McCarthy who had a decidedly mixed time of it in the first game, opened this game by lining out to Spencer Jones in centerfield. This was followed by Cole Carrigg stepping up to the plate. A long at bat resulted in a called third strike which Carrigg challenged but the call on the field was confirmed.

TJ Rumfield was gifted a soft walk, but clean-up man Hunter Goodman hit a ground ball back to Warren who threw it over to Luis Garcia Jr to end the top of the first.

36 year old, Tomoyuki Sugano was on the mound tonight for the Rockies. Prior to this game, he was 12-8 on the season. He showed great acomplished pitching as he got all three Yankees’ batters to strike out swinging – Ben Rice, Cody Bellinger & Aaron Judge. This was Judge’s 4th strikeout since his return from the Injured List (IL).

However, that feat of striking out three consecutive batters swinging was matched by Warren as he took down Mickey Moniak, Kyle Karros and Brett Sullivan in similar fashion. This was evidently going to be another tight dual of the starting pitchers.

But Colorado, the weakest team in the Major Leagues right now, know better to count their chickens before they are hatched (or the additional games going into the Win column).

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A New York Yankees Diary – Day Seven – September 8th, 2026

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Well, having arrived earlier in the preceding week to prepare for my personal residency at Yankee Stadium, I now took up my seat. I have decided to alternate between a seat in the 320 section and the 120 section both of which overlook homeplate. I tend to sit in these areas anyway but this year it is of particular interest to me, so that I can study this ABS (Automatic Ball & Strike system) which I have to admit to being somewhat prejudiced against as it seems to detract from the naturalness of the game and the autonomy of the umpires, but I shall do my best to keep an open mind over the next 13 home games.

An evening game against the weak pitching, weak fielding Colorado Rockies. Their hitting is good but is obviously boosted by the favourable conditions in Colorado. It would seem to me that in this game which began at 7.08pm New York time, a win is likely – and maybe even a sweep over the 3 games.

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

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For the last two months, the Yankees have been below .500 in win percentage each month. In August they have begun to turn that around. They lost the first five games in August and then went two-two in the next four. From there, they really picked up, and on the whole month, they went 16-12 which means they were 14-5 after August 10th.

Most of the improvement can’t be attributed to the new signings that they brought in or around the trading so we must think in terms of the return of Giancarlo Stanton, a career best season for Trent Grisham and continued good form from Cody Bellinger.

Sadly, Aaron Judge was still not playing his best game.

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The New York Yankees in July – Part Two – The Pitchers (2025)

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The pitching in July has not been a pretty picture.

Several relievers came in at the deadline (more on them presently), but the Yankees could also have used a new starter or two, but no-one arrived. They really aren’t in great shape.

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

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March 3-0

April 15-13

May 17-9

June 13-14

July 12-13

How did it come to this? After a good start in March and April followed by an exemplary month in May, the Yankees have now had two months where their record is below 50%.

The tailspin meant that there were always going to be a good number of changes as the trading deadline approached.

Most of those who came in were on the pitching side of the roster, but first we’ll survey the batters and those who have left and those who have arrived during the last few days.

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The New York Yankees in July – Part One – The Batters (2021)

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The New York Yankees seemed to begin to turn a corner in July and their results improved – particularly in the second half of the month.

It is difficult to analyse exacly why but strangely the results started to improve when many of their first choice roster members became unavailable and were replaced partially by untried players and partially by journeymen, perhaps spotting one final opportunity to breakthrough.

Some of those regulars were unavailable because of conventional injuries. Others were forced into isolation by positive Covid tests which hit the roster in ever-increasing numbers.

On the face of it, having to subtract Aaron Judge from the selection of available outfielders and add in Greg Allen, who in four previous stints in the Major Leagues (with Cleveland and San Diego) had managed to hit around .230, was not a recipe designed for success – but somehow the energy and enthusiasm of the new faces seemed to work.

Let’s survey the statistics of the offensive players in the month of July…

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