These two game series are weird. It’s nice that the Yankees have two days off this week to rest but they seem to come and go.
Things got off to a bad start on Tuesday. The Yankees scored four runs in the top of the fourth yet still got creamed. The Blue Jays scored three in the first, three in the second, then one in the third to put the game pretty much out of reach. To make matters worse, it was Randy Johnson who got shelled. He gave up seven runs on nine hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Alex Rodriguez hit a two run homerun and Jason Giambi went deep with a solo shot. Derek Jeter double, tripled, had an RBI and one run.
Wednesday went much better. Mike Mussina and Ted Lilly got into a pitching dual, and Moose came out on top. He gave up one run on seven hits with seven strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings. Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect ninth to earn his second save of the season. A-Rod hit his fifth homerun of the season and Jorge Posada singled home A-Rod in the seventh.
The Orioles come to town tomorrow and they’re ahead of us in the standings so this will be a nice way to vault our way back to the top. I’m fully expecting us to sweep them, because the Orioles are just a bad team.
