Fifty games into the season, and we are even at .500, with a 25-25 record, and on a tear in the East, winning their fifth straight game. They won this late, and in dramatic fashion, beating the Seattle Mariners in three straight, and sweeping the series. They looked like they might be in trouble through most of this one, until the 8th inning, when Jose Molina hit the game winning single, and took the score to 6-5, and that is where the score would stay.
One of the funny things about getting used to something; it’s that you begin to expect it. So far as to maybe even cry when we don’t get it. Well maybe not the cry part, but Chien-Ming Wang pitched a decent game today, giving up a dinger in the 3rd inning, a solo-shot, to Susuki, 1 of 5 he was charged with today. The Hits totalled 7, and a measly 2 strike outs spread over 6.1 innings of work. He left without the lead, and lost his decision, giving that to Ramerez, who came in relief.
Once the Yankees took the lead in the 8th inning, it was automatic. Rivera entered in the 9th, lights out. As a local Fox personality says…”Bingo-Bango!” That is what it is like when you see Rivera take the mound with the lead. “Pack up the kids hunny…this thing is over, maybe we can beat the traffic.” Automatic. Period.
This win streak has done more than rally the team, it has catapulted them right out of the basement, leaping them over Baltimore, in the East. They are only a tiny 5 games back now, and things are looking a little different than they have looked in weeks. Some of our players are bad from injury (i.e. Rodriguez), with still some more to come (i.e. Posada), and this team is starting to put something together that they can build on to make a playoff spot guaranteed. It is still early.
