Baseball’s Savior

Those pesky birds.  Just when it looks like we’re going to run away with the AL East, we hit a wall. 

Things went fine on Tuesday.  Mike Mussina kept us in the game and then a late rally led by Johnny Damon won it for us.  Damon went two for five with a homerun, two runs and three RBIs in the 8-3 win.  Scott Proctor got the win and Mariano Rivera the save.

It all went downhill from there.  Cory Lidle gave up three early runs and the Yankees couldn’t their bats going on Wednesday.  Then yesterday the Orioles blew us out.  Jaret Wright had been doing okay, but not this game.  He was gone after three innings.

So now it’s five games against the Red Sox in the shit box.  We have a game and a half lead, so there could be a huge swing by the end of the series on Monday.