The Yanks are down 3-0. Here’s hoping they can make us happy at least once more. One they lose, the panic about signing Aaron Judge, followed by Aaron Boone’s inevitable dismissal will set off a long, weird off-season.
Never mind hot stove:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Yanks still have a chance to swipe a game in Houston—and yes, Game 1 was within reach, a missed opportunity, dammit.
Sevi on the hill tonight.
Never mind the brisket:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Ah, the Yanks and Astros play for the American League pennant. Just like it was drawn up. Sure, the Astros should be able to wipe the floor with these Yanks but stranger things have happened.
We’ll be here rooting.
Never mind the hangover:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Nail-biting time for the Yanks and Guardians in the Bronx tonight. The weather looks lousy. The fans will be noisy. We will be rooting.
Never mind the Hot Stove:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Today gives a pair of Game 2’s in the National League.
Never mind the chill:
Let’s Go Base-ball!
Aaron Judge didn’t hit a home run during the weekend series against the Orioles. He hasn’t seen that many strikes, though yesterday he whiffed three times. Can’t help trying to hit a home run at home. He had at least two pitches yesterday that were mistakes. He put a good swing on both of them. Fouled them both off. The difference between a hot streak and “pressing.”
The Yanks are winners of the AL East and end the regular season against the Rangers in Texas. Tomorrow gives a double header so figure Judge will play three of the four games.
Never mind the pressure:
Let’s Go Jud-ge!
The Yanks clinched the AL East on Tuesday night. They’ve got eight games left (including a double header next Tuesday in Texas). Under normal circumstances, Aaron Judge would get a game or two off. That’s not going to happen with him sitting on 60 homers.
You know he’s got to be pressing and yet last night he walked four times. He was up five times and the count went full in each at-bat. In the first inning, he lined out sharply to third and after that, he spit on the 3-2 pitch, all enticing, and took his walks.
One of Roger Maris’s sons sits next to Judge’s mother at each game. It’s all exhausting—Michael Kay has to rev up into “historic” mode each time Judge comes up—but in the meantime, the Yanks are winning and all is well.
Everyone should have such problems.
Never mind the great expectations:
Let’s Go-Yankees!
Hitting home runs is not easy even for the best of the them.
All eyes on Aaron Judge again this afternoon. Yanks have beat the Sox 5-4 each of the past two nights; he walked three times on Thursday and hit a long fly ball that he “just missed”; got a base hit and whiffed twice last night. The magic number for clinching the AL East is down to four for the Bombers.
Never mind the pressure:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Aaron Judge hit home run number 60 last night to lead off the ninth inning. Four batters later, Giancarlo Stanton hit a line drive home run—the kind Dave Winfield used to hit—for a game-ending grand slam.
Tonight Judge goes for 61.
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Well, the Yanks offense has been lousy this summer but Aaron Judge continues to astound.
What a season, with a couple more homers last night in Boston and Maris’s 61 within reach.
Funski.
Wow, this has been some kind of ugly, eh? And to think they still have the second best record in the league.
Ah, the trade deadline.
It’s not been an easy time of it for Joey Gallo in New York. But every time I read something about him he seems to be thoughtful and self-aware and it makes me like him. And because I like him I’ve taken no joy in his failures as a Yankee. I don’t think his failure has anything to do with a lack of effort and while I know that doesn’t cut it when it comes to professional sports and winning championships and fan appreciation, it does count for something as a professional. And Joey Gallo has acted like a professional in New York. And that’s not nothing. Especially in the face of bombing. I wish him luck no matter where he winds up—so long as it’s not with the Red Sox.
Over at Esquire, I’ve got a piece on the new Jeter ESPN docu-series that is both formulaic and self-serving while also being entertaining and as revealing a look at Jeter by Jeter that we’ve yet to see. Jeter comes off as guarded but also plain-spoken and funny.
Yanks have lost 3 straight as they finish off the first half of the season.
Be nice to see them end it on a strong note, eh?
Yanks play four in Boston against the Sox. Should be interesting.
Never mind the gap:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Yeah, it’s June and not October. Still, that win last night in the Bronx against the Astros was sweet.
Not to mention the fact that the Yanks have continued to play so well—and against decent teams such as the Rays and the Blue Jays.
June is not October but a winning June is better than a losing one and we will take it.
The bubble has yet to burst. The Yanks keep rolling. Sure, it can’t last forever, but it sure has been fun so far, huh?
Next couple of weeks will be an interesting challenge: Rays (twice), Jays, and a four-game set against the Astros.
Tasty.
Jeez, this is a better start than many of us anticipated—winning close games (Aaron Judge with a walk-off homer last night against a cement-mixer; Gleyber Torres with 5 RBI this afternoon) and giving a promising and exciting Mets team a run for the town’s attention. Something good for the time being in this cockamamie world.
