2021 New York Yankees season
| 2021 New York Yankees | |
|---|---|
| American League Wild Card | |
| League | American League |
| Division | East |
| Ballpark | Yankee Stadium |
| City | New York |
| Record | 92–70 (.568) |
| Divisional place | 3rd |
| Owners | Yankee Global Enterprises |
| General managers | Brian Cashman |
| Managers | Aaron Boone |
| Television | YES Network WPIX-TV (Michael Kay, Ken Singleton, Ryan Ruocco, several others as analysts) |
| Radio | WFAN SportsRadio 66 AM / 101.9 FM New York Yankees Radio Network (John Sterling, Suzyn Waldman) WADO 1280 AM TUDN Radio Cadena Radio Yankees (Francisco Rivera, Rickie Ricardo) |
The 2021 New York Yankees season was the 119th season for the New York Yankees franchise.
They opened the season on April 1 with a 3–2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium, with the crowd at only 20% capacity, and closed the season on October 3 with 1–0 defeat of the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Yankees entered the season expecting to contend for the World Series, but underperformed and went 41–41, with 80 games left to play on July 4. They then went 51–29 in their final 80 games, including a season-high 13 game winning streak, their longest since 1961. On October 3, the Yankees clinched a Wild Card berth in the season's final game with a 1–0 win against the Tampa Bay Rays. Finishing the regular season with a 92–70 record, they qualified for the postseason as the fifth seed in the American League (AL), but lost the AL Wild Card Game to the fourth-seed Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on October 5 - their fifth consecutive playoff exit.
A full crowd at Globe Life Field saw starting pitcher Corey Kluber throw a no-hitter against the Texas Rangers on May 19.
The Yankees turned an 'around-the-horn' triple play on May 21 against the Chicago White Sox starting with third baseman Gio Urshela to second baseman Rougned Odor and then to first baseman Luke Voit. Then on June 17, against the Toronto Blue Jays in Buffalo, New York, the Yankees turned the first 1-3-6-2-5-6 triple play in major league history (and thus became the first Yankees team to turn more than one triple play in a season). On June 20, they turned their record-tying third triple play of the season, stranding the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning to defeat the Oakland Athletics.
From September 6–9, the Yankees lost a 4-game series to the Toronto Blue Jays without ever holding a lead in any game, the first time since 1924 that a Yankee team had ever done so in the regular season.