Baseball Historians

August 13, 1977 at Yankee Stadium
Angels 6, Yankees 5  (64-50)
The Yankees five game winning streak came to an end in a twelve inning loss to the Angels.  Sparky Lyle was called on to throw more innings in a game since mid-May and he finally caved in and gave up a run in his sixth inning […]

June 5, 1977 at Comiskey Park
Yankees 8, White Sox 6  (29-23)
The Yankees made good use of the long ball as they won the rubber game in their series with the White Sox.  Five different Yankees belted homeruns and they accounted for seven of the eight Yankees runs.  Thurman Munson, Carlos May, Reggie Jackson, George Zeber […]

May 24,  1977 at Yankee Stadium
Yankees 6, Red Sox 5  (22-18)
The Yankees scored four runs in the seventh inning and they needed everyone of them as they edged the Red Sox in a one run game.  Graig Nettles and Carlos May hit solo homeruns in the seventh but you had a nice team effort.  All […]

May 13, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium
Yankees 3, Angels 0  (17-12)
The Yankees were glad to get out of Seattle where they lost two straight but Ed Figueroa got the Yanks back on track in a three hit shutout in the team’s series opener against the Angels.  Figueroa walked five and struck out four in the win.
Thurman […]

April 24, 1977 at Cleveland Stadium
Yankees 10, Indians 1 (6-8)
The Yankees won their fourth straight behind an outstanding game by Chris Chambliss at the plate.  Chambliss went three for four with a double, a homerun, six RBIs and a run.  Carlos May also had a solid game.  He singled twice, drove in a run and scored […]

April 16, 1977 at County Stadium
Brewers 4, Yankees 3  (2-5)
The Yankees lost a tough one today.  Ken Holtzman took a two run lead into the bottom of the ninth, gave up a run and handed the ball to Sparky Lyle and watched him blow the game.  The two run homerun by Cecil Cooper to tie […]

April 10, 1967 at Yankee Stadium
Brewers 2, Yankees 1  (1-2)
The Yankees lost another tough as the Brewers edged them for the series win.  The game was tied heading into the ninth and Don Gullett appeared to go one inning to long because he gave up the go winning run after eight solid innings.  He took […]