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Hiroki Kuroda isn't just the best pitcher on the Yankees right now. He might be the best pitcher in the American League. The 38-year-old came through for the Yankees yet again Friday night, hurling eight shutout innings in a 5-0 victory over the B...

What it means: A quarter of the way through the season, Hiroki Kuroda is pitching like a Cy Young Award contender. On the same day that 40-year-old Andy Pettitte landed on the disabled list again, the 38-year-old Kuroda was nearly perfect against ...

Hiroki Kuroda pitched two-hit ball for eight dominant innings and the New York Yankees again beat Mark Buehrle and the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-0 on Friday night.

KANSAS CITY -- All season long, Hiroki Kuroda has been the New York Yankees' best and most consistent starter, and he is hot right now. But off the mound, the 38-year-old right-hander usually runs pretty cool. Except for Sunday afternoon, because ...

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DENVER -- As difficult as it may be to believe, the New York Yankees lost a game at Coors Field in which their starting pitcher allowed just two runs. Almost as equally difficult to believe is that in a ballpark that is still conducive to the home...

Against the surprisingly good Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night, Hiroki Kuroda will be pitching in ballpark in which he is not exactly himself. Coors Field can turn a Cy Young Award winner into a BP pitcher, so it is not unusual for starters to strug...

With one month of the season in the books, the Yankees might have a new ace. It's not that CC Sabathia pitched badly in April. Hiroki Kuroda has just been that good, and he delivered again in a 7-4 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday. It...

Hiroki Kuroda settled in after a rocky start to pitch four-hit ball through seven innings, Travis Hafner had three RBI singles and the New York Yankees used small ball to beat the Houston Astros 7-4 on Tuesday night.

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The way Hiroki Kuroda's night began Thursday, you figured he'd be hitting the showers early. Instead, he stuck around long enough to earn his third win of the season. Kuroda went six innings, giving up three runs on six hits -- but the performa...

With Derek Jeter making his first visit to the Bronx this season, Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer and the New York Yankees used a flurry of early long balls to outslug the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Thursday night.

Random statistical observations on the Yankees that I found noteworthy through 20 games: • Through 20 games, the Yankees have an AL-best 28 homers (a pace for 227) and only seven stolen bases (Ichiro Suzuki and Brett Gardner have one st...

TORONTO -- Over his past two starts, Hiroki Kuroda has pitched 16 1/3 innings, allowed eight hits, walked one, struck out 12 and allowed just one measly run. And yet, he has just one win to show for his troubles, since the Yankees bullpen -- in th...

TORONTO -- OK, so Hiroki Kuroda pitched 7 1/3 strong innings, Joba Chamberlain and Boone Logan each got two key outs, and Mariano Rivera picked up his fifth save of the season. But who got the win on Saturday? If you said Shawn Kelley, give you...

TORONTO -- This was one of those "it's better to be lucky than good" games. The Yankees, and especially Hiroki Kuroda, were good for 7 1/3 innings, but that wasn't enough to nail down Saturday's game against the Blue Jays. Then they got lucky on o...