Chris Stewart (baseball)

MLB Team Report - New York Yankees - INSIDE PITCH Right-hander Vidal Nuno has gotten used to not pitching very often. He went two weeks between his first and second outings this season, but he responded with five scoreless innings in a win over the...

LHP Vidal Nuno suffered his first major league loss Tuesday night. He gave up the game-winning homer to Baltimore's Nate McLouth in the bottom of the 10th as the Orioles edged New York, 3-2. DH Travis Hafner got an RBI on his first two at-bats in...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - New York Yankees - INSIDE PITCH During this injury-laden season, the Yankees' braintrust has been searching for upgrades wherever they can find them. Any player who is even a smidge better than someone on the roster,...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - New York Yankees - INSIDE PITCH Sunday's rainout made the Yankees slightly re-configure their starting rotation heading into a series against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards that was slated to begin Monday. CC...

The Sports Xchange By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: updates with details and quotes Blue Jays-Yankees postponed due to rain NEW YORK -- CC Sabathia's personality does not give off the aura of an intense person so when Sunday's start...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - New York Yankees - INSIDE PITCH From a depth-chart perspective on the Yankees 40-man roster, manager Joe Girardi already is playing his third option at first base, shortstop and third base, respectively. Now he...

NEW YORK -- Hiroki Kuroda turned in another stingy outing by limiting the Toronto Blue Jays to two hits over eight innings as the New York Yankees opened a three-game series with a 5-0 victory on Friday night. Kuroda (6-2) won for the fourth time in his...

The Sports Xchange By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange Yankees 5, Blue Jays 0 NEW YORK -- Hiroki Kuroda turned in another stingy outing by limiting the Toronto Blue Jays to two hits over eight innings as the New York Yankees opened a three-game...

The Sports Xchange By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange Yankees' Kuroda shuts down Blue Jays NEW YORK - The New York Yankees did not have a long man in the bullpen, but when Hiroki Kuroda struck out Jose Bautista on a slider for his first out Friday...

With two outs in the fifth inning, the night's result suddenly became a secondary story as far as the Yankees' long-term prospects are concerned. That was when Andy Pettitte, who had felt his upper back "completely lock up" in the fourth inning,...

Still pulsating, Mariners closer Tom Wilhelmsen stood holding a beverage in the clubhouse to explain why he was feeling fulfilled. "Everything you could want as a ninth-inning guy happened right there," Wilhelmsen said. Just about everything the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - New York Yankees - INSIDE PITCH The Yankees have some tenuous days ahead after lefthander Andy Pettitte had to come out of Thursday night's 3-2 loss to the Mariners at Yankee Stadium because of tightness in his...