Erik Boland

New York

Sports Writer at Newsday

Yankees beat writer, @NewsdaySports, since 2009; Political/History junkie; proud native of Cleveland; proud graduate of @JohnCarrollU

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Yanks' Carlos Carrasco allows only one hit against Royals

1 week ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

Other than Max Fried, a notable exception as the lefthander has pitched like an ace so far this season, the Yankees' starting rotation in the early-going had been a train wreck. The group entered Monday night’s game against the Royals with the worst ERA (5.40) in the majors. Righthander Carlos Carrasco toted the second-worst ERA (7.71) by a Yankee into his start Monday but, for one night anyway, provided some positive headlines for the unit.
Yankees' Carlos Rodon plagued by HRs, walks in loss to Giants

1 week ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

After his previous outing, Carlos Rodon lamented the walks. “Definitely tired of walking people,” the Yankees lefthander said after walking three last Monday in Detroit, with two of those free passes preceding an Andy Ibanez three-run home run that turned the game around. Rodon is still tired of it. Walking three more batters — one of those coming just before a three-run homer — Rodon mostly threw the ball well but not good enough in a 5-4 loss to the Giants at the Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Max Fried giving the Yankees the ace they needed

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

The Yankees officially found out on March 10 they’d be without their ace for the season when the organization announced just after 6 p.m. that night Gerrit Cole was to have Tommy John surgery. Max Fried, signed to an 8-year, $218 million free-agent deal in the offseason to slide in behind Cole to form -- the club hoped -- an elite 1-2 rotation punch, naturally was asked the morning of March 11 about his now de facto role as staff ace.
Three takeaways from the Yankees-Tigers series

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

DETROIT — Three takeaways from the Yankees series against the Tigers:1. Devin Williams is still getting his feet under him. The Yankees’ new closer, brought in over the winter in the Nestor Cortes deal with the Brewers, is off to a slow start, posting a 12.00 ERA in four outings — comprising three innings – in which he’s walked four and struck out five.
Yankees hold on in the ninth inning to beat the Tigers as Max Fried was masterful

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

DETROIT – Max Fried was as good as he’s been in his brief time as a Yankee, maybe as good as he’s been in his nine-year career. And the Yankees needed every bit of it. Because Wednesday afternoon’s opposing pitcher, Jack Flaherty, a high school teammate of Fried’s at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, was just as good.
Yankees' Carlos Carrasco no match for Tigers' Tarik Skubal

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

DETROIT — The scouting report on Tigers lefthander Tarik Skubal is the same as with any top pitcher. Take advantage of the few opportunities given and always — always — try to get to him early before he settles in. Maybe next time. After back-to-back singles against Skubal to open Tuesday afternoon’s game, the Yankees saw the 2024 AL Cy Young Award winner retire 16 straight. By that point Carlos Carrasco had an outing similar to the one by Milwaukee’s Nestor Cortes on Opening Day.
Yankees' Cody Bellinger out of starting lineup Tuesday with illness

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

DETROIT – First his back, then his belly. Outfielder Cody Bellinger, who missed games Friday and Saturday in Pittsburgh because of stiffness in his lower back, is not in Tuesday afternoon’s starting lineup against the Tigers because of a bout with “food poisoning,” according to manager Aaron Boone. “He’s been throwing up all night,” Boone said late Tuesday morning.
Yankees chill out in frigid loss to Tigers in Detroit

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

DETROIT — Yankees players, coaches and, yes, manager Aaron Boone, raided the cold-weather closets late Monday morning for the first of a three-game series that was moved to afternoon start times because of unusually frigid temperatures, even for this city in the Midwest used to hard winters and hard springs. They all donned, and layered in, an assortment of gear — everything from compression sleeves to ski hats to hoodies, gloves and turtlenecks, many of the latter hoisted up over their faces.
Yanks rally for three in 9th, but Pirates walk off in 11th

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

PITTSBURGH — An impressive ninth-inning rally wasn’t quite enough. Their bats in a deep freeze for eight innings on a raw Sunday afternoon, the Yankees scored three times in the ninth to force extra innings. But after the Yankees stranded two runners in both the 10th and 11th innings, the Pirates pushed one across. Tommy Pham’s walk-off single drove in designated runner Jack Suwinski to hand the Yankees a 5-4 loss on a 40-degree day at PNC Park.
Yankees get two homers, four RBIs from No. 9 hitter Trent Grisham in win over Pirates

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Erik Boland

PITTSBURGH — Even after the loss of Juan Soto to the Mets in the offseason, a line delivered by everyone to Brian Cashman to Aaron Boone to Aaron Judge regarding the Yankees' lineup this season was that “1 through 9,” it had the potential to be deeper than last season’s. That has proved to be the case, at least to this point.