Doug Mientkiewicz

Hey fans, it's Darren live-blogging with you here. We're just minutes away from the first pitch. I can't help but to think about all of theYankees players excited to play in Pittsburgh, the same city as Puerto Rican legend Roberto......

Bad news for the Yankees' outfield: it's not in great shape. Hideki Matsui's left knee has been bothering him for some time, and Joe Girardi is not comfortable playing him in the outfield. Now Johnny Damon is having trouble with......

Well, its hard to believe it could get any worse for the Yankees today after a dreadful performance at PNC Park last night. It's Darren Sands again live with you as Joba Chamberlain takes the mound on double duty --......

So I got through reading a book about the Yankees yesterday afternoon. But not the one that's attracting all the attention and controversy. Plenty of people have weighed in on the Joe Torre book, so I'll leave that to others......

Melky Cabrera got the winning hit and solidified his hold on the centerfield job in the Yankees' 7-4 win over the Angels last night. The new A-Rod book has some stuff about steroids, tipping pitches, plus A-Rod plays in first......

Sources close to defending champion Jeff Feldman tell WatchDog he is planning to defend his title Thursday in the Sports Spelling Bee at the Times Square ESPN Zone. You might recall that last May Feldman, originally from Old Westbury,......

ST. PETERSBURG — If you read the programming note blog below this one, you saw where yours truly didn't make the trip to Omaha, Neb. with the Florida State Seminoles for this year's College World Series. (We do have two people there representing the...

Tony Jackson of ESPN.com/LA has a story on four free-agent candidates to be the Dodgers' fourth outfielder: Garret Anderson, Brian Giles, Gabe Gross and Reed Johnson. None of them really appeal to me a whole lot, not because Xavier Paul......

If the Dodgers are about to sign Reed Johnson as their No. 4 outfielder, as Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com says is the case, I think you can firm up what we speculated about earlier this week: Ronnie Belliard will start......

Of late ... St. Louis is 1-4 and 6-10. Philadelphia is 2-3 and 5-6.Los Angeles is 1-4 and 6-6. None of this speaks to how well the teams will play next week.. And anyway, each of these teams has recovered......

Two themes dominate the Dodgers' first postseason challenge of 2009: the Cardinals' 1-2 1-2 punches of Albert Pujols-Matt Holliday and Chris Carpenter-Adam Wainwright, and St. Louis' relative dominance of the Dodgers in recent years. It's heavy stuff,...

A merit firing, if you will, isn't something to be upset about. But when half a dozen Dodger employees are fired apparently because the person who hired them fell out of favor ... well, it's not like I know any......