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Hitters' streaks of homering in consecutive games By JohnW53 on May 8, 2021, 4:48am CDT + Only the Yankees (16,350) and Giants (14,804) have hit more. The Cubs have hit at least 1 homer in as many as 17 consecutive games. They have homered in at least 10 straight games 5 games in a row. Intriguingly, neither have the Braves, who had hit the fourth most total homers, 14,047. Nor have the Dodgers, Phillies or Reds. That makes 5 of the 8 National League teams that existed before 1962. The record for all 5 teams is 5. ... On the other hand, the Padres had a streak of 6 by Graig Net...

April 29, 2021 It would be inaccurate to say that the Yankees suddenly have a catching controversy, but only because the situation has been building for years, and already came to something of a head last fall. While Gary Sánchez burst onto the scene a few years ago as one of the game’s top backstops, he has struggled mightily in three years out of the past four, to the point that he started just two of the team’s seven postseason games last October and was nearly non-tendered last December. Amid his latest slump and the team’s ongoing funk, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said on Tuesday ...

3 Yankees on the hot seat, including Clint Frazier Updated 11:10 AM; Facebook Share CLEVELAND — Things are looking up for the Yankees. They have won three in a row. On Saturday night, their ace Gerrit Cole bested reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber. They’re finally hitting home runs again. Still, there are players who are sitting on seats with varying degrees of warmth just 20 games into the year. If they don’t pick it up, and fast, the could be finding themselves more familiar with a seat of a different kind: the bench. Here are three of them:

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Clint Frazier has been taking an awful lot of strikes. So far this season, Clint has swung at pitches in the zone less frequently than almost any other batter in the league. Headed into Saturday night’s game against Cleveland, Clint had swung at 54.5% of pitches he’s seen in the strike zone. More than discerning, that zone swing % puts him in the bottom five percent among players with at least 25 plate appearances in 2021. There are just a dozen players who have swung at strikes at a lower rate. Frazier’s resistance to swinging stems from indecision, Yank...

What Yankees think of Clint Frazier’s deepening struggle Today 7:00 AM Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier was hitting just .156 after Friday night's 5-3 win over the Indians at Progressive Field. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP Facebook Share CLEVELAND — It was a better night for Clint Frazier. Though the Yankees left fielder finished hitless in two at-bats, he walked twice and he nearly crushed a two-run home run, except his long fly in the second inning landed harmlessly just in front of the center-field wall in a 5-3 win over the Indians at Progressive Field on Friday. Frazier tagged the deep f...