Assessing the Situation
The Yanks needed a win in the worst way today and they did indeed win in the worst way: all their runs ame in the second; they left 14 runners on base (that's 52 in the last three games); and yes senor sloppy made yet another error (that's 20 in all, only 6 to go to tie Knoblach and there's just under a third of the season left to go). But they did prevail and although he can't seem to get out of the 6th inning (though today it was AROD's fault), Wright did win for the 5th time in his last 7 starts, making him for the moment a pretty decent no. 5. As BGW has insisted, however, Torre just has to change this lineup around. Posada is justy terrible at the plate right now and needs to be dropped in favor of both Cano and Cabrera. In case anyone has missed it, Jeter is in the midst of a nasty little slump right now, and I think it would help him to focus just on gettiung to first any way possible. Bat him leadoff, especially since Damon, with his 16 homers and 288 batting average is doing something other than classic lead-off work anyway. And the rule should be that once Procter reaches the dugout, whether he's pitched a full inning or 1/3, he's done. On the positive side, Fahrnsworth and Mo not only had 1-2-3 innings, they only used 10 pitches apiece, so they should be fine for tomorrow.
I sadi Boston would sweep Balt., but I had no idea how bad the O's would have to be to make that happen. Not only did they give up a 4 run lead, not once but twice, after the game was tied in the ninth, they ran themselves out of a scoring opportunity and then allowed the winning run to score on an error. Jeez, they stink. Mazzone has found a pitching staff immune to his magic and Perlozza is the worst manager in baseball. The Yanks damn well better sweep them at the stadium.
One last thing. the Yankees are now just 5 games back in the loss column from Detroit. That's right the conventional wisdom about the Tigers being "for real" may have been, like most CI, premature. The Tigers have one more in Chicago and three in Boston. By the end of that stretch they mioght be as little as 2 gasmes clear of the wild card leader with a month a a half to play and a young tired untried pitchiong staff. The playoffs might just look more like last year (Chi, Bos, NY, LA) than anyone thought.
I sadi Boston would sweep Balt., but I had no idea how bad the O's would have to be to make that happen. Not only did they give up a 4 run lead, not once but twice, after the game was tied in the ninth, they ran themselves out of a scoring opportunity and then allowed the winning run to score on an error. Jeez, they stink. Mazzone has found a pitching staff immune to his magic and Perlozza is the worst manager in baseball. The Yanks damn well better sweep them at the stadium.
One last thing. the Yankees are now just 5 games back in the loss column from Detroit. That's right the conventional wisdom about the Tigers being "for real" may have been, like most CI, premature. The Tigers have one more in Chicago and three in Boston. By the end of that stretch they mioght be as little as 2 gasmes clear of the wild card leader with a month a a half to play and a young tired untried pitchiong staff. The playoffs might just look more like last year (Chi, Bos, NY, LA) than anyone thought.
posted by joe valente | 4:19 PM
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Thanks!
No it's not surprising. If there were no outs, it is unlikely he would have hit one; if there were two outs, but the score was 5-4, it is unlikely he would have hit one. On the Touch 'Em all segment of Baseball Tonight, the AROD fan club showed his homer because it was the 10th year in a row he had hit at least 25. Ravech commented that "AROD continues to put up magical numbers."Maybe he should have said meaningless numbers.
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