There is good news. The good news is that the Yankees are pitching well. Sure, the starters aren’t going deep enough into games, and yes, the bullpen is taxed, but as a whole, they are performing well. CC Sabathia wasn’t terrific last night, giving up 9 hits, but he bulled his way through 6 innings allowing only a couple of runs.
It’s just that nobody is hitting. Four lousy hits all night. Rallies left limp and for dead in the 8th and 9th. I could recount these failures by why bother? If you didn’t see it live, you’ve seen something like it before, enough to know you don’t need to know more. Less you are a some kind of masochist or something.
2-1 was the final and that’s how it unfolds when you’re in a slump.
Oh, the Jays won again, and now they are in first place.
Game on, fellas. Something tells me good t hings are right around the corner.
I'm the eternal optimist. At lease the Jays can't block a Yankees waiver deal, but the Yankees can block a Jays deal. So if there's a deal to be made make it now.
It's just been an amazing collapse. On July 28, the Jays were 8 games back. That's 16 days ago. The Yanks had just beaten the absolute snot out of Texas, winning 21-5 and taking a 2-0 lead in that series. And then things started to slowly unravel. The Yanks are 4-9 since then.
There's still a lot of baseball to be played. Screw the division, I'm tired of worrying about Toronto. Just get to the Wild card and anything can happen.
I even felt okay after the Boston series, since the Yanks took 2 of 3 (and had taken 2 of 3 in Chi-town before that) and led by 4.5 games. The Yanks have only scored 9 runs in their last 7 games. I cannot remember a bigger drought over a week.
[1] At "least" rather. Ugh.
And lest we forget, Stephen Drew is still on the team.
Not saying the losing is all his fault, but it is!!!! Drew gets the blame (from me) because he's the most futile baseball player that somehow manages to luck into a homerun every 21.42 at bats, and that seems to be justification enough for keeping him on the team.
This team resembles much of the Cashman teams from years past, if they ain't hitting homeruns then scoring becomes a problem. It just felt that everything was going so well with them this year that I did not think this was a problem like in years past, but it has all come to the forefront with this losing streak.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/13/the-yankees-are-calling-up-prospect-greg-bird/
[4] sigh. We need to swing a waiver deal and DFA Drew [3] or call up Refsnyder and DFA Drew.
Win tonight and regroup. The Jays can't win them all. Can they?
C'mon, kid!