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June 27, 2005
Mets/Yankees
I could write a big entry about this weekend's events at Yankee Stadium but the majority of the baseball played in the Bronx by the home team was too distressing to want to write much about. I am glad that the Yankees managed to avoid getting swept and that once again Jason Giambi was the hero to win the game for the Yankees with a big two-run single. I'm sure some will manage to find fault because he didn't hit a homerun in that spot but I'll take the win any way that it comes. Two game-winning hits so close together has to give Giambi a huge amount of confidence.
What gets me though is Joe Torre's comment after the game. "If this doesn't built our character, I don't know what will. When we had that ugly inning in the seventh, it's something that certainly would have been tough to try to go to sleep on. And to be able to rescue that, I can't tell you how important it was." Gee, the Yankees had several other games that should have built character, including the other game that Giambi won for them, but so far that hasn't seemed to do anything for them. I'd love to say that last night's game will be a turning point in the season for the Yankees and they will go on to play crisp baseball the rest of the way but I have my doubts about whether that's going to happen.
Tonight the Yankees start a series against the Baltimore Orioles and it's essential that they try to win this series given that it's against a division rival that is currently ahead of them in the standings. However, Carl Pavano is pitching for the Yankees and he's been unimpressive so far this season. Hopefully the Yankees will be able to get something going against Daniel Cabrera and score a bunch of runs to take some of the pressure off of Pavano.
Last year at this time there was a lot of talk about what the Red Sox were doing and how to stay ahead of them. Now I'm more concerned with the Yankees trying to stay out of fourth place in the division and win as many games as they can than what the Red Sox are doing. Maybe the Red Sox will win the division or maybe they won't but one thing's for sure - the Yankees have to do as much winning as they possibly can between now and the end of the season if they want to have any hope of playing in the post-season.
Posted by silverdsl at June 27, 2005 03:31 PM