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NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens was booed off the mound Thursday after he allowed eight runs and nine hits in the second inning of the Yankees' game against the Chicago White Sox. Only three of the runs were earned. Second baseman Robinson Cano mishandled Jerry Owens' grounder near the bag with one out, and Clemens threw out Darin Erstad at the plate on Alex Cintron's dribbler, but the next four batters all got hits off Clemens before manager Joe Torre replaced him.

NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens returned to the New York Yankees, making a dramatic announcement to fans from the owner's box during Sunday's game against the Seattle Mariners. Clemens Clemens' contract will be a pro-rated salary of $28 million dollars, according to ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. His pro-rated salary last season was $22 million. Clemens will make about $4.5 million per month for June, July, August and September. At the end of the seventh-inning stretch, Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard told fans to turn their attention to the box, where Clemens was standing with a microphone. As the...

DETROIT (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez had big black marks under his eyes. Nothing will deflect the glare of another postseason bust for A-Rod and the New York Yankees. Just like last year, Rodriguez was AWOL when the Yankees needed him most, going 1-for-14 with no RBI as the Yankees were eliminated in four games by the Detroit Tigers, the second straight first-round exit for New York. "You kind of get tired of giving the other team credit," Rodriguez said in a somber Yankees clubhouse. "At some point, you just have to look in the mirror and say, 'I sucked.'" The...

According to NY Daily News and ESPN.

DETROIT - Three years ago, they lost 119 games and were a punchline. You know, the Detroit Tigers ... ha, ha, ha. Funny game, baseball. The Tigers are the ones laughing loudest now - and dancing their way to the AL championship series. And the New York Yankees? Well, they're the joke. Jeremy Bonderman was perfect for five innings and sublime for 8 1-3 in leading Detroit to an 8-3 victory in Game 4 on Saturday to win the AL playoff series and eliminate A-Rod, Jeter and the other high-priced, high-profile Yankees. Days removed from being swept by Kansas City...

Ok Seriously. I've never been a fan of the guy, but wow did Rogers look sharp tonight. 7 2/3, 0 runs, 8K. He really had something to prove tonight and did he ever. A-Fraud AKA Mr March, went 0-3 and is batting .125 for the series. Watching the Yankees lose NEVER GETS OLD!

DETROIT (AP) -- Three years ago, they lost 119 games and were a punchline. You know, the Detroit Tigers ... ha, ha, ha. Funny game, baseball. The Tigers are the ones laughing loudest now -- and dancing their way to the AL championship series. And the New York Yankees? Well, they're the joke. Jeremy Bonderman was perfect for five innings and sublime for 8 1-3 in leading Detroit to an 8-3 victory in Game 4 on Saturday to win the AL playoff series and eliminate A-Rod, Jeter and the other high-priced, high-profile Yankees. Days removed from being swept by Kansas...

NEW YORK (AP) -- One chance left. Otherwise, infamy. On the brink of the biggest collapse in postseason history, the New York Yankees have one opportunity remaining to pull themselves together and finally finish off Boston. If not, this storied team with 26 World Series titles also will be remembered for the biggest October choke ever. Against its bitter rival, no less. Talk about a painful winter of wondering what if. Talk about an angry George Steinbrenner. Time to panic in pinstripe city. ``If you've got nerves, you shouldn't be there,'' star closer Mariano Rivera said. Curt Schilling shut down...

CLEVELAND -- While the debate rages among Yankees followers, the same discussions take place behind closed executive doors. What's needed most, an impact hitter or another significant starting pitcher? Tuesday night at Jacobs Field, the Indians only stoked the argument on both sides during an historic 19-1 thrashing on owner George Steinbrenner's 76th birthday. Cleveland launched six homers on the Fourth of July -- three off starter Shawn Chacon -- and handed the Yankees their worst defeat since a 22-0 loss to the Indians on Aug. 31, 2004 at the Stadium. The ugliest necktie The Boss ever received couldn't match...

The Hillary Curse continues. Everyone knows of the Curse of the Bambino foisted on long suffering Boston Red Sox fans until finally vanquished in 2004. I've been tracking The Hillary Curse. What is that, you may ask? Well, ever since the voters of New York saw fit to alect Hillary Clinton as their Senator in 2000, no New York professional team has won any championship. Yep, go check for yourselves. Not the vaunted Yankees, Mets, Rangers, Knicks, Jets or Giants have won the ultimate prize; God's little payback for the b*itch. Tonight, 2 days after the Democratic convention in Buffalo,...

Loretta raps out four hits as Boston rallies late in Bronx NEW YORK -- For six innings on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox were left flustered and stranded, and certainly not contemplating the latest classic contest that was unfolding against their long-time rivals from the Bronx. They left 13 runners on base over those first six and seemed in danger of letting another strong effort by knuckleballer Tim Wakefield go to waste. But then came a gust of wind that just might have changed everything in the rubber match of this three-game series, which wound up an...

The saga continues in the Bronx this week. The Sox send out Beckett, Wakefield and Schilling. The Yankees counter with Randy Johnson, Mike Mussina and Shawn Chacon. The New York Post ran a back cover story questioning why anyone has not dared to throw at David Ortiz.. (maybe because he is 6' 4" and weighs 250 lbs) Sox offseason pickup Josh Beckett returns to Yankee Stadium for the first time since Game 6 of the 2003 World Series. Series returns to NY after an abbreviated series last week in Boston where Boston fans expressed their true feelings about Johnny Damon.

Who here is a Yankee fan? Yankees have gotten off to somewhat of a rocky start but the starting pitching has been generally fantastic and once the offense stops coming in spurs, they will do some solid damage. This is the year that they finally break through and win the World Series.

I'll bet that cellar smells! Regular Standings  |  Expanded Standings  American League  East W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10  Baltimore 18 9 .667 -- 9-7 9-2 16-6 1-1 1-2 Won 1 8-2  Boston 16 12 .571 2.5 6-4 10-8 11-10 3-1 2-1 Won 3 6-4  Toronto 16 13 .552 3.0 5-6 11-7 12-10 0-0 4-3 Lost 1 7-3  NY Yankees 11 18 .379 8.0 7-10 4-8 9-14 0-0 2-4 Lost 3 3-7  Tampa Bay 11 18 .379 8.0 10-8 1-10 8-16 0-0 3-2 Won 3 3-7 Go RED SOX!

The Toronto Blue Jays went toe-to-toe with the mighty New York Yankees, withstood a big first shot and then beat up their ace. Alex Rios and Troy Glaus clubbed two-run homers off an ineffective Randy Johnson while Gustavo Chacin recovered from a terrible first inning to pitch into the seventh as the Blue Jays whipped the Yankees 10-5 Tuesday night. Rios also hit a run-scoring double in the first and a sacrifice fly in the sixth to match his career-high with four RBIs while Glaus added a solo shot in the seventh for the Blue Jays (7-6), who remain scorching...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Ervin Santana allowed one run over 5 2-3 innings, Adam Kennedy hit a tiebreaking two-run triple and the Los Angeles Angels beat the New York Yankees 3-2 Saturday night to hand Randy Johnson his first loss of the season. The last time Johnson and Santana pitched in the same game was back on Oct. 10, when both worked in relief in the finale of the AL division series. Santana, who was bumped to the bullpen because the Angels went with a four-man rotation in the postseason, pitched 5 1-3 innings for the series-clinching victory in his...

Angels beat Yankees 5-3

September 21, 2005 -- YOU probably don't need more than five fingers to be able to count the number of dramatic pennant races in which the Yankees have been involved throughout their history. They've won, they've won pretty much all the time within any sports context, but finishing in first place by at least eight games the way the Yankees have 22 times since moving into the Stadium in 1923 doesn't leave much elbow room for stretch-drive heroes. This year, however, the Yankees are running in a race rather than parading to a coronation. It's no given that postseason October...

Game Time: 8:05 pm EDT TV: FOX Pitching Matchup: D. Lowe vs. K. Brown Forget the Curse of the Bambino. The Boston Red Sox have a chance to end the curse that has plagued every major league team that has ever slipped into an 0-3 hole in the postseason. One victory away from completing the greatest comeback in playoff history, the Red Sox will also try to hang an epic AL championship series collapse on their archrivals from New York when they take the field for Game 7 at Yankee Stadium. ``For the last three days, we kept showing up...