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Tuesday, January 10
Yankees and Braves Merge
The Indianapolis Yankees and the Kokomo Braves have announced their merger for the upcoming 2006 IABL season. After three seasons in the MABL, the Yankees manager Erich Rusie and Braves manager Jason Nelson, in his team's second season, brought the clubs together in hopes of fielding a more competitive team. The Yankees, founded under Dustin McCallister in 2003, went 4-16 in their inaugural season, then went 5-15 in 2004 and 8-9 in 2005 under Erich Rusie. The team continually added a higher level of talent with more players with college experience suited up for the Yankees and an overall depth was obtained with capable players filling out the entire roster. However, with the IABL leaning towards a more balanced schedule and the addition of highly competitive teams to the league, the merger allows the team to continue to move forward instead of declining in production.
Most of the Yankees core players with take part in the merger. Aces Matt Matheis and Bobby Reese will anchor the pitching staff along with workhorse Robbie Pattengale. The Yankees starting infield will make the transition alot easier with the only known loss coming at first base as power hitting Ricky McGraw signed a professional contract with the Evansville Otters. Second basemen Steve Gentry returns, as does Steve Owens at the hot corner. Fernando Ramirez, picked up from the MSBL Cubs will accompany Josh Church in the middle of the infield. The outfield will be a platoon of players from both squads fighting it out for playing time as the team will be two deep at each outfield position. Erich Rusie will step down as manager and relinsquish head coaching duties to Jason Nelson. Rusie will remain on the team as a catcher along with Dave Willis from the Kokmo club. The merger was followed by some bad news as two Braves' stars left to begin an expansion team. Hugo Pena and Matt Burke departure opens the door for other outfielders to step up and log major innings. Overall, the merger will consolidate the two teams amassed talent under an organized program that should be more competitive.
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Sunday, September 18
Attention Prospective Players
The Indianapolis Yankees are looking to bolster their roster for the upcoming 2006 season. While there are limited spots available all interested players are heavily encouraged to contact Erich Rusie (preferably via email). The contact information for the team is listed in the administrative box on the lower left of the screen. The new free agency rule does not require current MABL players to obtain a release from their team in order to switch teams if they do so before the end of the year. Players may switch teams after January 1st only if their former manager consents. A specific postion that were are looking to add depth to are pitching, however no position is guranteed for a current player so all interested players should contact the team. Please give your name, age, position(s) and baseball experience when submiting your information.
 | | The Countdown To Next Season Has Begun! |
Sunday, August 21
Yankees' Season Ends With Loss to White Sox
The Yankees 2005 season came to an abrupt end when they went up against the defending regular season champs in the first round of the playoffs. Starting the game short-handed, the Yankees couldn't get back on track after the Sox posted 4 runs in the first. Matheis started the game and pitched well despite the disadvantage defensively. Marc Boudouris and Otis Williams led the Yankees with two hits a piece. Eight of the nine Yankee batters had atleast 1 hit, but could not string them together to produce any runs. Final Score: White Sox 18 Yankees 0
Sunday, August 14
Yankees Sweep Cubs, Finish 8-9
 |  | | McGraw Had 5 RBI In Game 2 |
The Indianapolis Yankees managed to take both ends of a Dh against the Cubs down at Decatur dentral HS Sunday. The wins, make 4 in a row for the team heading into the playoffs against the White Sox.
Game 1 featured Bobby Reese on the hill for the Yankees. Reese threw a complete game, giving up just 1 earned run while striking out 9 and walking 3. The offense took an early lead scoring 3 runs in the first as Matheis drove in Wes Journay and Ricky McGraw and was later knocked home by Erich Rusie. The Yankees held on to a 4-3 lead until the 8th when the Cubs plated the tying run on a costly error. The Yankees, however got a leadoff single from Josh Church in the 9th, followed by a double by McGraw. Steve Gentry came into the game as a pinch runner for McGraw and scored along with Church when Rusie single to left with 1 out. Bobby Reese retired the Cubs in the 9th after a 1 out walk to pick up the win.
Game 2 was a little unlike game 1 as the Yankee bats jumped out to score 5 in the first and conitued to post 12 total runs to the Cubs 1. Matt Matheis picked up the win on the hill, also striking out 9 Cub batters in just 6 innings of work. McGraw had 5 RBI, including a triple with the bases juiced in the 5th. Douglas Andresen came on to close it out in the 7th as the rain began to fall after threatening all evening. Andresen got K's for all 3 outs, while not allowing a run. The Team finished 8-9, the best in franchise history and face the defending regular season champs, the White Sox in the first round of the playoffs.
Saturday, August 6
Yankees Sweep Braves, Move to 6-9
|  | | Williams Goes 3-5 And Scores 3 Runs |
The Yankees got back on track this weekend with a sweep of the Kokomo Braves. The Braves and Yankees played several close games last year and both came in this year battling for playoff positions. The first game was won by a forfeit due to the Braves being short players. The two teams held a scrimmage to stay loose until more players arrived for the 3:30 game. Bobby Reese threw 3 solid innings and was relieved by Bobby Mehl. Mehl making his seond appearance shutdown the Braves for two innings allowing no runs while also turning a double play on a difficult ball to field. The Yankees first 3 batters scored as the Braves tacked on 2 and the score after five was Yankees 3, Braves 2.
Game 2 saw Matt Matheis take the hill and throw a gem, allowing only 1 run over 7 innings. The Yankee bats were slow to pick up on Robbie Pattengale of the Braves as the score stood 4-1 after 7 innings. The Yankees however tacked on 7 more to win 11-1. Otis Williams had 3 hits, including a triple and scored 3 runs to lead the Yankee offense. McGraw, Matheis, Church, Owens and Gentry all drove in runs to spark a sluggish Yankee offense. Doug Andresen picked up his second save of the season throwing shutout baseball in and 8th and 9th.
Yanks Take 1 of 3 Over Weekend
|  | | Matheis Throws 14 Innings Over The Weekend |
The Indianapolis Yankees came from behind to beat the Logansport Legends in the 9th inning on Saturday at Lawrence North HS. Matt Matheis picked up the win throwing a complete game, striking out 7. The Yanks jumped out to an early 3-1 lead in the first but fell behind 7-3 in the 6th inning. The Yankees got two back in the 8th as Erich Rusie doubled in Matheis, followed by Jason Feil knocking home Rusie with two outs. Otis Williams led off the 9th by getting hit-by-a-pith. Williams was advanced to 2nd by Gentry, then plated when Josh Church doubled in the tying run. Church later scored on an errand pickoff throw to first. Matheis retired all 3 batters in the 9th, striking out the final two. Final Score: Yankees 7 Legends 6
On Sunday, the Yankees squared off against the Red Sox in a DH, once again at Lawrence North HS. In Game 1, the Yankees and Sox stood knotted at 1-1 through 5 innings. In the 6th 4 hits and 2 errors led to 7 runs for the Sox. The Yankees managed only 1 run off of Tony Harden who struck out 17 batters in a stellar performance on the hill. The lone run came when Matt Matheis singled in Ricky McGraw, who led off the 4th with a double. The Sox went on to sore 2 more and win the game 10-1, as Reese is dealt the loss, allowing only one bad inning to the Red Sox batters.
Game 2 found the Yankees nursing a 4-1 lead as Matheis got the start, despite throwing 9 innings and picking up the win the day before. With a lack of arms in the Yankees pen, Matheis was able to keep the Sox at bay for 4 innings, allowing only 1 run until the 5th. With 2 3-run homers in the 5th and another run tacked on, the Sox took an 8-4 lead. The Yankees were unable to establish a comeback, going down in order in the 6th and 7th. Jeremy Boose came in relid of Matheis to throw a shutout 6th inning, striking out 2 of the 4 batters he faed. Final Score: Yankees 4 Red Sox 8
Sunday, July 24
Patriots Past Yankees 7-2
The Indianapolis Yankees lost Sunday to the perinial powerhouse Plainfield Patriots. Bobby Reese picked up his first loss of the season, lasting only 2 innings while giving up 7. Matt Matheis was sharp in relief, not allowing a run in 4 innings. Wes Journay led the offense going 2-for-3 and scoring one of the two Yankee runs. Steve Gentry plated the other run, being knoked in by a Josh Churh single in the 3rd inning.
Sunday, July 10
Yankees' Struggles Continue: Arrows 8 Yankees 2
| | | Whats Wrong? Rusie and Reese Discuss The Season's Woes |
The Yankees come up short on the field as well as in the boxscore Sunday to the Arrows. With the addition of Fernando Ramirez, Matt Gettys, and Paul Mpistolarides the Yankees hung with the powerhouse Arrows trailing 2-0 through 4 innings. However, after the Yankees scored in the 6th, the Arrows tacked on 4 runs to pick up the win 8-2. Matt Matheis (1-4) threw another complete game giving up only 4 earned runs. The jumbled batting lineup only managed to get 2 runs across as Erich Rusie drove in the first run in the 4th and scored the other in the 9th. The Yankees fall to 3-6 as they approach the interleague contest next week against the Logansport Legends from the 28+ division.
Below: #12 Josh Church and the rest of the Yankees are frustrated as the losing streak stretches to 4.
Sunday, June 26
Astros Take Two Nail-Biters in Walk-Off Fashion
|  | | Reese Delivers 6 Solid Innings, Fails To Pick Up 3rd Win |
The Yankees came in against the Astros looking to get back over .500 in a day/night doubleheader at Zionsville High School. The Yankees, missing three starters took an early lead with ace Bobby Reese (2-0) on the mound. Shaky defense allowed the Astros to climb back into the game with Douglas Andresen on the hill, throwing 5 innings of relief as the game went into extra innings. The Astros came back to score 4 unearned runs to take the lead going into the 8th. The Yankees were 4 outs away from defeat when Ricky McGraw had a 2RBI single in the 8th to send the game into extra innings. Using the international rules of 1 out and a runner on second, the Yankes and 'Stros played 2 more, before the Astros took the lead for good in the top of the 11th and held on to win 10-9. Andresen (0-2-1) was tagged with a loss, while not giving up a single earned run.
In game two the Yankees also took an early lead on a 2 run homerun by Ricky McGraw. The Yankees, however, would only manage one more run in the 6th when Otis Williams scored after a leadoff triple. The Astros came back to win in the bottom of the seventh as Brown drove in Dillion, who doubled to get the bottom of the seventh started. The Yankees fall to 3-5, losing two games in the final inning.
Sunday, June 19
Team Shows Rust, Falls To Roosters
The Yankees showed a ton of rust coming off of the rainout week before. The Yankees played their first poor defensive game of the season, commiting 12 errors. Jeff Montfort struck out 18 as the teams battled an ever changing strike zone through the night. Matt Matheis (1-3)started the game for the Yankees, giving up only 3 hits and 4 earned runs, but a shaky defense allowed several unearned runs. Wes Journay and Steve Gentry were the only Yankee hitters to hit safely as the team drops to 3-3.
Sunday, June 5
Yankees Hold Off Rebels 4-3, 5 inn.
|  | | Steve "Chappelle" Gentry |
The Yankees move to 3-2 on the season by defeating the Rebels 4-3 on Sunday. The Yankees, missing 3 starters, scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 3rd to take a 4-1 lead. The Rebels came back with 2 more of their own in the top of the 5th. But, the game was called due to rain and lightening and rain before the bottom of the 5th could be completed. With the Yanks leading the game in the bottom of the 5th, they came away with the win. Bobby Reese threw once again against the Rebels, going 5 innings, giving up only 3 hits, while striking out 6. Reese (2-0)has pitched well since joining the team after pitching at Rose-Hulman this past spring. The offesne was once again a team effort with 7 hits in only 4 innings. Brandon Trostle was 2-for-2, bringing his average to .364 on the season.
Sunday, May 22
Yankees Edge White Sox, 8-7
|  | | Matheis throws six for the win |
The Yankees came out Sunday after getting hammered on the road to just get by the defending regular season champs, 8-7. The Yankees scored first as Jake Armstrong knocked in Erich Rusie. but the White Sox tacked two on in the bottom of the first to take the lead. The Yanks fell behind 5-1, then pulled it within 2, only to see the the White Sox respond again with two of their own. The Yankees continued to trail until they scored 5 in the 7th to take an 8-7 lead. Matt Matheis threw 6 strong innings to get the win, as Doug Andresen came in and pitched more shutout baseball, throwing the final 3 innings for his first save. Final Score: Yankees 8, White Sox 7.
| | Yancy Hollonquest was one of 3 to be added to the roster for Portland | |
Saturday, May 21
Indy Drops Both Ends of DH In Portland
The Indianapolis Yankees traveled to Portland, IN to meet the Portland Rockets on Saturday. The Rockets, defending conference champs, got the best of the Yankees winning 10-0 ane 23-3. the Yankees were disapointed after making the long haul, but dressed only 10 players. The 10 players used also included 3 last minute signings in order to fill out the roster. Manager Erich Rusie said he thought the club could have played better against the Rockets, but acknowledged that the expectations would have been higher if the whole team had been able to make the trip. The Yankees threw Joe Egan and Steve Gentry, neither of whom had thrown an inning his year. The Yankees hope to play Portland, as well as Geneva next season.
Sunday, May 15
Yankees Pick Up Win 12-1 Over Rebels
The Yankees picked up their first win of the young season Sunday. Bobby Reese threw 7 strong innings, allowing one unearned run, while striking out 7. The offensive support was an all-around effort with Ricky McGraw going 3-for-3 with 3 RBI. The defense stepped up as well, playing solid behind Reese and Andresen, who came in and pitched shutout ball in the 8th and 9th. The Yankees move to 4th in the divison at 1-2 overall. Next, the Yankees go to Portland, Indiana to battle the Portland Rockets. The Rockets are a team composed of current and former college players also. It will be the Rockets season opener. Game is Saturday May 21st @ 1pm.
Sunday, May 1
Yankees Drop Week 2 to Dodgers
The Yankees lost to the Dodgers to fall to 0-2 on the young season. Doug Andresen got the start and pitched well, but what got the Yanks was another rocky 1st inning. The Yankees got 4 in the 2nd to pull within one, but the Dodgers tacked on enough to win in 8 innings.
Sunday, April 17
Opening Day Hurricanes 8 Yankees 3
The Indianapolis Yankees opened the season against the Hurricanes this past Sunday up at Zionsville HS. The Canes opened up with 7 runsn in the top of the first, but only scored once more throughout 8 innings. The Yanks managed to get 1 back in the first, but the offense was stagnant until Josh Church blasted a 2 run homer in the 8th. Final score Hurricanes 8 Yankees 3.
Sunday, April 10
Yankees Come Back to Win Scrimmage Game vs Kokomo Braves
The Indianapolis Yankees came from behind to beat the Kokomo Braves Sunday in a 9 innning exhibition game at Lawrence North. The Yanks used 4 pitchers including Matt Matheis, John Rardon, Jake Armstrong, and Douglas Andresen. All pitched well as the Yankees won 7-3. Jake Armstrong and Ricky McGraw both had extra base/rbi hits with two outs to tie and then take the lead. Andresen came in and threw the 8th and 9th innings strong to cap off the win.
Wednesday, February 9
Yankees Add Free Agents
The Yankees added several new players to the team this season. New faces include RHPs Ricky McGraw, John Rardon, ...
Monday, February 14
Yankees Draft 5
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