The Latest Breaking News from Kyle Higashioka

SEATTLE — The Mariners didn’t just survive their 20-game gauntlet out of the All-Star break that featured 13 games against the Yankees and Astros, they punctuated it in style.

NEW YORK — Welcome to the Mariners and a playoff push, Luis.

Not the way Frank Schwindel wanted to get into the MLB history books, that's for sure.

NEW YORK — Going into pinch hitter Jose Trevino’s two-out at-bat in the 13th inning on Friday night at Yankee Stadium against the Chicago Cubs, the New York Yankees were 0-for-18 with runners in scoring position and had left 15 men on base.

CHICAGO — On this night, Aaron Judge got the job done with his legs.

DETROIT — The night was never going to be conducive to good, clean baseball. Temperature at game time was 43 degrees and falling into the 30s with a chilly wind. Miserable.

BALTIMORE -- Jose Trevino was one of the first players in the clubhouse Sunday morning. The catcher’s first stop was not to the food room or the video room; he wandered over to the corner of the visiting clubhouse in Camden Yards where the pitchers’ lockers were clustered. Just a…

NEW YORK — For all the sweeping talk after the first two games about the Yankees’ new-look, much-improved 2022 offense, four games into the season, it much resembles the much-disparaged 2021 group.

TAMPA, Fla. — Back in 2015, Kyle Higashioka felt like his offense was going nowhere. The catcher looked at the big leagues to find someone who he could imitate to remodel his swing. The American League MVP that year was a slight infielder who showed incredible power, so Higashioka started…