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New York Post
09-08-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Yankees survive late scare for much-needed win thanks to Trent Grisham's clutch homer
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free The 2000 World Series club that the Yankees celebrated Saturday lost 15 of its final 18 regular-season games. It limped into the postseason, ditched its crutches and sprinted to a title. In the ballpark was living proof that slides that threaten to end seasons don't always end seasons. 'We're certainly hoping for that kind of a run,' Aaron Boone said. 'It's been a tough couple months for us.' On an Old-Timers' Day that featured a brief alumni game and plenty of star power in The Bronx, the Yankees experienced what has become rare: a nice afternoon during which potential heartbreak morphed into euphoria. After the pregame festivities, the Yankees grabbed a lead, predictably blew it in gut-wrenching fashion and then watched Trent Grisham blast the tie-breaking home run in a 5-4, exhale of a victory over the Astros in front of the 2000 Yankees and 45,738 in The Bronx. The Yankees (62-55) won for just a second time in eight games and can bounce back from a two-series losing streak with a rubber-game victory Sunday. After mostly Camilo Doval, partly rough defense and partly David Bednar coughed up a two-run edge in the top of the eighth, Grisham provided the needed swing in the bottom of the inning. 3 New York Yankees pitcher Luis Gil reacts after he is pulled from the game in the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, on August 9, 2025. JASON SZENES/ NY POST The outfielder demolished a no-doubter against Bryan King and did not watch the ball land. Grisham remained in the batter's box, stared into his dugout and began his trot as the ball sailed into the second deck. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND YANKEES STATS Bednar — asked again to record five outs — threw a scoreless ninth to seal a game that had teetered just a few minutes earlier. In the eighth inning, the seemingly daily Yankees collapse began. With Cam Smith on first, Doval fielded a one-out comebacker from Jesus Sanchez that should have ended the inning. But Doval's errant throw to second pulled Anthony Volpe off the base, recording zero outs instead of two. The door swung open, the Astros took advantage. Jose Altuve reached out his bat and sent a single into left that Jasson Dominguez chased down and came up throwing. The strong throw probably did not have a chance to nab Smith, but Ryan McMahon did not cut the ball off — which may have surprised catcher Ben Rice, who then saw the ball travel right by him. The run scored, Sanchez advanced to third and Altuve to second. 3 New York Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton hits an RBI single in the fifth inning at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx on August 9, 2025. JASON SZENES/ NY POST After Doval walked Carlos Correa to load the bases in a one-run game, Aaron Boone tried Bednar for a five-out save again, this time less effectively. Bednar got ahead of Christian Walker, 0-2, before throwing four straight balls to tie the game. The new closer bore down from there, though, striking out Yainer Diaz and Taylor Trammell to escape. A Yankees lineup that housed both Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton hit Framber Valdez hard, managing four runs on eight hits and four walks in 5 ⅓ innings from the Astros star lefty. They struck in the first inning, when Paul Goldschmidt (single), Judge (walk) and Cody Bellinger (single) loaded the bases before Stanton walked to score the first run. Rice's sacrifice fly gave the Yankees a lead that would last until the fourth, when Houston tied it up. The Yankees went ahead in the fifth, when Judge walked without seeing ball four, Valdez ticketed for a pitch-clock violation. Bellinger singled to put a pair on before Stanton hammered a ground ball into left-center for the go-ahead run. Rice followed by at least putting his bat on the ball, a double play adding an insurance run. Luis Gil served up a leadoff home run to Jeremy Peña on his fourth pitch of the game but settled in from there. 3 New York Yankees first baseman Ben Rice hits an RBI ground-rule double in the fifth inning at Yankee Stadium. JASON SZENES/ NY POST He struck out the side in the third — three of his seven strikeouts — and allowed just one more run on a fourth-inning RBI single to right field from Carlos Correa. Giancarlo Stanton, making his season debut in the outfield, came up with a strong, one-hopped throw to the plate that was a split-second too late to nab Jesus Sanchez. Otherwise, Gil scattered six hits and walked one in 5 ⅓ inning in which he built up to 91 pitches and was able to steal an out in the sixth, with Boone attempting to coax as many outs as he could to save an overworked bullpen.
Hindustan Times
09-08-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Roger Clemens returns to Yankee Stadium, questions about Mike Piazza bat-throwing incident resurface
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Clemens came back to Yankee Stadium on Saturday, and so did the questions about his bat-throwing incident with Mike Piazza in the World Series 25 years earlier. HT Image Piazza was batting against Clemens in the first inning of Game 2 of the 2000 World Series when his bat shattered along the first-base line. Clemens picked up part of it and fired it toward the Hall of Fame catcher. Clemens made his debut in the Yankees' Old-Timers' Day game on Saturday and faced four batters in the first exhibition game of the event since 2019. His manager on the 2000 championship team defended the pitcher's actions in that at-bat against Piazza. 'There's still a question with the broken bat, with Piazza and the whole thing in Game 2,' Joe Torre said at the podium right as Clemens walked in. 'I think if Mike knew that the ball was foul, he wouldn't have been starting to run to first base. That ball went over the first base dugout, was foul right away. He didn't know where it was, so he started running.' Clemens made his first appearance as the Yankees honored the 2000 team, the last team to win three straight titles. Clemens heard a nice hand from the crowd as a montage of his highlights played on the center field video board — but omitted his famous toss at Piazza. 'I didn't know he was running and Mike said that same thing, too,' Clemens said. 'He didn't know where the baseball was. So my first instinct when I shattered that bat in about four pieces, I thought it was a baseball coming at me.' The Yankees went a combined 22-3 in the 1998 and 1999 postseasons, but struggled at times in 2000, losing 15 of their final 18 regular-season games, before outlasting the A's by winning a Game 5 on the road in the Division Series. After beating Seattle in a six-game ALCS, the Yankees beat the Mets in a five-game Fall Classic where every game was decided by two runs or fewer. Clemens joined the Yankees in a trade with Toronto during spring training in 1999. He was 14-10 with a 4.60 ERA in 1999 and then 13-8 with a 3.70 ERA in 2000. During the postseason, Clemens won three games, including Game 2 against the Mets. 'When he was on the other team, you didn't like him very much,' Torre said. After two seasons of an on-field question and answer session with radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman, the game returned and Johnny Damon hit an RBI single off Clemens. Clemens was among several 2000 Yankees at the event that did not feature former captain Derek Jeter. Jeter delivered a taped video message after Mariano Rivera was the final player introduced. 'He was in spring training,' fellow pitcher Andy Pettitte said of Clemens. 'So it was good to see him in spring training and then of course here. A huge part of our 2000 team and it was good.' The only former player not introduced was current manager Aaron Boone, whose team entered Saturday with six losses in seven games. A seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Clemens went 354-184 with a 3.12 ERA and 4,672 strikeouts, third behind Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Randy Johnson (4,875). In two stints with the Yankees, Clemens was 83-42 with a 4.01 ERA and retired after the 2007 season. He was named in the Mitchell Report in December 2007 and has denied PED usage. In his final year on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot in 2022, Clemens received 257 votes (65.2%). Besides members of the 2000 team, Willie Randolph, Graig Nettles, Chris Chambliss, Ron Guidry, Bucky Dent and Mickey Rivers were introduced as members of the 1977 and 1978 World Series teams. The widows of five-time manager Billy Martin, captain Thurman Munson and Bobby Murcer were also introduced as part of an event that began in 1947 when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth first appeared.
New York Post
09-08-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Derek Jeter sends video after missing Old-Timers' Day — here's what Yankees captain said
On a beautiful Saturday summer afternoon in The Bronx filled with Yankees of old running around trying not to get hurt, the lone glaring absence was No. 2. Derek Jeter did not attend this year's Old-Timers' Day — the first since 2019 that included an alumni game — due to what the Yankees said was a prior family commitment. Advertisement Instead, after all the Old-Timers were introduced during an event that celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 2000 World Series champions, Jeter — the World Series MVP during the five-game victory over the Mets — sent a video that was played in The Bronx. 'Hello everyone,' Jeter said. 'Sorry I couldn't be in person this year, but I did want to reach out to say what's up to my teammates on the 2000 World Series championship team. It's been hard to believe it's been 25 years. Twenty-sixth title in franchise history. The last team to win three in a row. Quite frankly, it might be the last team you see a team win three in a row. And we beat the Mets on top of it. Advertisement Derek Jeter during his taped speech. @YESNetwork/X 'To the Yankees fans, thank you as always for being so passionate and energetic and undoubtedly the greatest fans in the world.' Without Jeter on hand, the loudest ovation went to Mariano Rivera. Advertisement Derek Jeter could not attend Old-Timers' Day. @YESNetwork/X Rivera revealed Saturday his intention to talk to struggling reliever Devin Williams, whose rough week continued Friday when he allowed three runs in the 10th inning of the 5-3 loss to the Astros. 'Forget about it,' Rivera said of bouncing back as a closer. 'You can't do nothing about it. What's done is done. Move on and be confident. You have to be confident in yourself. If you're not confident in yourself, why are you playing the sport?'
New York Post
08-08-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Roger Clemens on famous Mike Piazza World Series broken bat drama: ‘If I wanted to hit him with it, I could have'
Two and a half decades later, Roger Clemens' broken bat throw at Mike Piazza is still a defining moment of the Subway Series rivalry. While many were outraged and confused when Clemens took a chunk of Piazza's broken bat and fired it into the ground right back at him, Clemens has set the record straight numerous times over the years and did so once again on the latest episode of Jack Curry's 'Yankees News & Views' podcast. Roger Clemens fields Mike Piazza's broken bat during Game 2 of the Subway Series World Series on Oct. 22, 2000. AP 'TV made it look like it was five feet from him,' Clemens said. 'I didn't think it was that close to the guy, and I definitely wasn't throwing it at him. I tease people now … if I wanted to hit him with it, I could have hit him with it.' Clemens detailed that the reason he fielded the bat in the first place was because his initial instinct was that the baseball was coming back at him. 'So, I broke down into my wonderful fielding position, and wouldn't ya know, that bat took two hops, came right up into my freaking lap, and I just grabbed it and whistled it on down to the on-deck circle,' he said. Of course, this led to mayhem as the benches cleared. Clemens and Piazza had to be separated by the home plate umpire during the first inning of Game 2 of the World Series in 2000. AP While the broken bat and the ensuing chaos weren't part of the plan, the fastball that shattered Piazza's bat was. 'Mike got in the box and I think my first three pitches were like 98, 98, 98. And I shattered his bat,' Clemens said. 'The scouting report with [Yankees pitching coach] Mel Stottlemyre was great, too. We were in the trainer's room going through the lineup, and when we got to Piazza, we said, 'We're gonna pitch him in. And we're gonna pitch him in. And we're gonna pitch him in.'' The Yankees pitcher went on to retire Piazza with a ground ball out, and the Pinstripes took down the Mets 6-5 en route to their 4-1 2000 World Series win.
Time Out
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Yankees legends Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and more will return for the decade's first Old-Timers' Day
Break out the pinstripes and polish those cleats: Old-Timers' Day is back at Yankee Stadium and it's bringing the Bronx Bombers' glory days with it. On Saturday, August 9, the Yankees will host their 77th Old-Timers' Day, marking the first full-scale return of the on-field alumni game since 2019. The midday event—complete with tributes, player introductions and a few innings of hardball—will honor the 25th anniversary of the Yankees' 2000 World Series win over the Mets. Fans can expect a stacked lineup of legends from that championship squad. Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, catcher Jorge Posada, lefty ace Andy Pettitte and other fan favorites like David Cone, Tino Martinez and 'El Duque' Orlando Hernández will all suit up once more. The roster even includes some first timers to the event: Roger Clemens, David Justice, Alfonso Soriano and José Vizcaíno are making their Old-Timers' Day debuts. In total, more than 40 former Yankees will take the field, including Monument Park inductees like Paul O'Neill, Ron Guidry, Bernie Williams, and manager Joe Torre. Longtime fans may also spot familiar faces from decades past, like Bucky Dent and Graig Nettles, plus representatives for club legends Thurman Munson, Billy Martin and Bobby Murcer. After a pandemic-era pivot to ceremonies and Q&As, the return of live on-field action is a welcome shift. The YES Network will air the full festivities, with coverage starting at 11:30am and player introductions kicking off promptly at noon, led by Michael Kay. The Old-Timers' game will immediately follow, ahead of the Yankees' afternoon matchup against the Astros. One notable absence? Derek Jeter, MVP of the 2000 World Series, who's reportedly skipping the event for a family birthday. Still, the day promises a nostalgia-fueled celebration of one of the franchise's most dominant eras—and a rare chance to see the Bronx Zoo legends back in action, even if only for a few innings.
