Ryan McMahon’s circumstances changed in an instant when he was traded by the last-place Rockies to the playoff-contending Yankees.

Aaron Judge has elevated his level of play in 2025 and could be the decisive factor for the Yankees to conquer the World Series. When it comes to power, consistency and leadership

Entering Saturday’s game, the Yankees’ 120 wRC+ was the best in baseball. They lead MLB in home runs, walk percentage, isolated power, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wOBA. This offense is deadly enough to carry them to title No. 28.

“Just not good enough,” said manager Aaron Boone, who along with pitching coach Matt Blake was ejected in the seventh inning for arguing balls and strikes. “We’ve got to obviously tighten it up. Confident we will. We’ll continue to work at it. We have good defenders here. But tonight was obviously a rough night for us.”

The last-place Pittsburgh Pirates have several attractive trade chips they can move ahead of the July 31 deadline. That could be good news for New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman.

Realmuto hit the go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning, while Schwarber, who recorded his 1,00th career hit on his fifth inning homer, went deep twice. The pair combined for seven RBIs.

The team hasn't been the same team since. The Yankees beat Cleveland again in the 2020 wild card series, the 2022 divisional series, and have now denied the city a World Series appearance.

Andy Pettitte had won four World Series with the Yankees by the time the 2008 season ended and, knowing he would turn 37 the next year, didn’t know if he and the rest of the Core Four would pick