I know, the Yankees have a three game winning streak, and they’ve won five of their last six, but Yankees’ fans can afford to be picky. The very worst team in MLB came to town with a thirteen game losing streak, and they ended that skid at out expense. The Yankees’ win over the Tigers today makes up for it a little bit, but that’s downright embarrassing.
Kyle Farnsworth was the culprit on Friday. Last season, Farnsworth slammed a KC player down to the turf near the end of a bench clearing brawl and it looks like the Royals got their revenge. They tagged him for three runs in the eighth, and even though the Yankees scored a couple and tried to come back, the deficit was just too big. A decent start by Mike Mussina went to waste and Jason Giambi had two hits, two runs and two RBIs in the 7-6 loss.
Obviously the Yankees took out their frustrations on the Royals this Saturday. Fifteen runs on fifteen hits. Alex Rodriguez homered twice and scored four runs and Kelly Stinnett drove in four runs. Chien-Ming Wang improved to 5-2 and he gave up four runs on seven hits with three strikeouts in seven innings.
Yesterday, the Yankes sent Kansas City’s starter (does it really matter who it is) packing before he (yes, I’m assuming it’s a man) got through the first inning. We added a single run in the second and took a 6-1 lead into the fourth inning, when the Royals began picking away at the lead. Close is only good in horseshoes and hand gernades and while the Royals made it all the way to five runs, they couldn’t get that sixth. Johnny Damon homered and A-Rod drove in two runs.
I’m a little late with this and the Yankees have already started their next series with the…..Red Hot Tigers???!!! What is the world coming too. We chopped them down to size in game one and Randy Johnson looked sharp. We still have three more and it’s some record high temps in the motor city. Hopefully we can win two or three more before we move on.
