{"id":69615,"date":"2024-04-04T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=69615"},"modified":"2024-04-03T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:40:24","slug":"yankees-second-best-start-team-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/04\/yankees-second-best-start-team-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yankees Are Off to One of Their Best Starts in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have come out of the gate hot, going 6-1 and tying the second-best start in team history. What do the other 155 games have in store for the pinstripes?<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Tie Second-Best Start in Franchise History<\/h2>\n<h3>Yankees Get It Going Early<\/h3>\n<p>Few people in the Yankees&#8217; orbit expected this start, but many are appreciating it right now. Through the first week of the season, the Yankees have gone 6-1 and have flat-out brought it offensively. They&#8217;ve scored 32 runs in that span.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it more impressive is who they&#8217;ve done it against. Starting the year off on a seven-game road trip, they swept an Astros team that was just in the ALCS and won the series against the defending NL Champion Diamondbacks. New York&#8217;s start has been historic as it ties the franchise&#8217;s second-best start ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Yankees 6-5, 11-inning victory gives them a 6-1 road trip, tying their second-best start in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/status\/1775655985656561959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Newcomers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=sotoju01,soto--004jua&amp;search=Juan+Soto&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=verdual01,verdug001ale&amp;search=Alex+Verdugo&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Verdugo<\/a> have been big reasons for the early success &#8211; each having signature Yankee moments early and often in this stretch. Whether it was<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustBB_Media\/status\/1773483527125819417\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Soto&#8217;s game-saving<\/a> throw against Houston or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1775645212578070735\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verdugo&#8217;s go-ahead homer<\/a> against Arizona, General Manager Brian Cashman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/12\/06\/juan-soto-trade-yankees\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">offseason moves<\/a> have been paying early dividends.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next For New York?<\/h3>\n<p>A 6-1 start is amazing, but it is still only seven games into the season. The Bombers still have 155 to go, so what can fans expect from them? Sadly, 161-1 is a tad unrealistic. While they are winning games, New York has demonstrated some flaws. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/ny-yankees\/stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seven errors<\/a> and a lineup that has heavily relied on three players (Soto, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabreos01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/volpean01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Volpe<\/a>) for production could spell trouble in the future, but it doesn&#8217;t mean this team is doomed to repeat 2023 by any means.<\/p>\n<p>The bullpen has been fantastic, the rotation has held up without their Cy-Young winning ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colege01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerrit Cole<\/a>, and the offense has shown it&#8217;s got some fight in it &#8211; snagging four come-from-behind wins already. If they can keep this momentum going, this team could be in for a memorable season.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, New York has started the year off on a great note and will look to keep it going against the Toronto Blue Jays during their opening home series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Rob Schumacher\/The Republic \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have come out of the gate hot, going 6-1 and tying the second-best start in team history. What do the other 155 games have in store for the pinstripes? Yankees Tie Second-Best Start in Franchise History Yankees Get It Going Early Few people in the Yankees&#8217; orbit expected this start, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4905,"featured_media":69810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,1071,35],"tags":[900,3461,676,611,2133,5927],"class_list":["post-69615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-alex-verdugo","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-brian-cashman","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-juan-soto","tag-oswaldo-cabrera"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}