Baseball’s Savior

The magic number is now four and the Yankees should wrap up another division title here this week.  All this despite losing three of four to their so called rival, the Red Sox.

Friday’s game was rained out so the two teams had to play a pair of doubleheaders this weekend.  In game one on Saturday, the Yankees got a two run homerun from Robinson Cano, but that was it.  Chien Ming Wang was mediocre and he dropped to 17-6 in the 5-2 loss.

Game two was their lone win of the series.  Randy Johnson threw a pretty poor game but the bullpen and the offense picked him up.  Bernie Williams drove in two runs and Jorge Posada had three hits, two runs and an RBI in the 7-5 win.

Yesterday wasn’t pretty.  The Red Sox doubled up the Yankees in game one 6-3 and the Red Sox came from behind to beat the Yankees 5-4 in game two.

So we’re done with the Red Sox until 2007.  Good riddance.  Next up is three against the Blue Jays.