ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mark Leiter Jr. started to walk off the mound, yelled and gave a slight fist pump. He didn’t care if the pitch he had thrown was actually a strike. All that mattered to ...

NEW YORK — Like most major leaguers, Mark Leiter Jr. often glances at the schedule to check out who’s coming to town and, specifically, which hitters he’s likely to face in the late innings.

Oct 29, 2024; New York, New York, USA; New York Yankees pitcher Mark Leiter Jr. (38) throws during the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in game four of the 2024 MLB World Series at ...

LOS ANGELES – Mark Leiter Jr. has been to a World Series before. From the stands at Shea Stadium, a 9-year-old Leiter Jr. watched his uncle Al Leiter start Game 5 of the 2000 World Series for ...

Leiter Jr. walked into a first and second situation with one out and the Yankees leading by just one. Having an already taxed bullpen, Aaron Boone was short on options and needed big-time outs ...

CLEVELAND — The Yankees traded for Mark Leiter Jr. in July with October in mind. But the right-hander spent the ALDS watching, left off the roster, and he began the ALCS in the same spot.

Usually, that's saved for fielders coming into a game for the first time but on Friday night in Cleveland, it applied to Yankees reliever Mark Leiter Jr. The right-hander was acquired from the ...

It was from Mark Leiter Sr. — the former Yankees pitcher and father of Mark Leiter Jr., the winning pitcher on Friday, who turned in a gutty performance on the same day he found out he was being ...

Mark Leiter Jr. knows the expectations after coming over in a deadline trade and knows too many of his pitches have wound up in the seats, having allowed five home runs in his first 16 games with ...

WASHINGTON — Before the Yankees acquired Mark Leiter Jr. from the Cubs at the trade deadline, the right-handed reliever was unhittable in Chicago’s bullpen. Leiter Jr. had thrown 7 2/3 perfect ...

Former Yankees pitcher Mark Leiter Sr. was in the Cincinnati area on July 30 to watch his son — also named Mark — play for the Chicago Cubs against the Reds. It was the afternoon of the Major ...