Though Boston remained 4 games ahead of New York following Tim Wakefield’s gem against the Devil Rays Monday night, the Yankees maintained their blistering pace with a 7-6 victory over Baltimore. Trailing the Mariners by a mere percentage point in the Wild Card race, the Bombers’ turnaround, while awfully dramatic, has been mostly of the bludgeoning variety. It’s impossible not to be impressed with Cabrera and Cano’s performances of late, but it’s just as tough to imagine the Yankees continuing to score enough runs most nights to compensate for a decrepit starting rotation. But I’m loathe to make many more predictions other than Fran Healy will not hit 3 home runs against the Dodgers at the end of “The Bronx Is Burning”. After all, I’d have argued in late spring the junior circuit’s wild card absolutely, postively was coming out of the Central Division.
In the meantime, while money certain can purchase some top flight talent for the Yankees, it would appear common sense about posing for photographs is in very short supply.
The way I see it: if the deathless Robby Cano can hit .450 for an entire month, and the walleyed Shelley Duncan can channel Phil Plantier (oh ho!) for a couple of weeks, then one of the piss-poor teams the Yankees run into during this “hot streak” can actually win a game or two (or, at the very least, not give away an out in the 9th inning at home down one run with one out against the great Mariano Rivera on a short fly ball to CF that the effluvient Melky Cabrera was hard-charging as the fertile Melvin Mora rounded 3rd and SLOWED DOWN TO LOOK BEHIND HIM AT THE PLAY IS THAT WENDELL KIM AT 3RD FOR FUCK’S SAKE).
Just saying.
presumably Jhonny Peralta won’t be getting picked off first with the bases loaded too many more times this season. then again, who am I to doubt him?