9 in a row.
Nein in a roe.
No matter how I write it it makes me drool.
This is the team I expected since before Spring Training. Everything is clicking right now. Tex is batting nicely, not to mention his gold glove defense, saving runs, something we haven't had from a first baseman in years. CC is on track. AJ's last few starts have been delicious. Even Hughes has been filling in satisfyingly for Wang, and when Wang is back, if he's back to being Wang, hoo boy. HOO BOY. Swish is batting .250 with lots of homers. Jeter is getting the hits when we need them most (which makes batting .275 okay!!!). Cano is a .300 hitter. A-Roid is roiding his way to the record books. Mo is back to Mo. Everything is clicking just the way it should.
How about Melky? Is this a breakout two months, a breakout year, or just a fluke of a season? Is he really just a career 260 hitter, and we are being teased? I love his glove, and I love the way he's swinging the bat.
So let's talk about tonight's game.
Joba Chamberlain vs. Adam Eaton. Usually the Yankees make the crappiest of pitchers look brilliant. Well, usually meaning a month ago. Not this team. They're done screwing around.
Joba, two outs and four batters in was out after a line drive to his right knee. Yankee Universe held their breath until later in the game when they found out it was just a bruise.
Adam Eaton is terrible, and the Orioles are terrible. And its a shame, because they don't have to be. They have great hitters. But their starting pitchers are just awful. They are like the 2005 Yankees, only they have guys in the front office who are just the worst in the business. Infact, Sports Illustrated recently called Orioles owner Peter Angelos the worst in baseball.
Three doubles to lead off game makes any baseball fan feel good. And that's what Jeter, Cano, and Texeira did. Made me feel goooood. Then of course The Sultan of Suck in the Clutch, Alex Rodriguez grounds out to second, ruining what I'm convinced would have been nine consecutive doubles.
Aceves is awesome. He was awesome last year and he's awesome now. He's my favorite relief pitcher, besides Mo, and the Yankees are lucky to have him. He has the stuff of an ace, and the testicular fortitude of seventeen men who already have the testicular fortitude of seventeen men. ACEves.
I forgave Girardi for relieving Aceves for Jonathan Albaladealdlealldaljo, reluctantly deciding that ACEves had probably had enough between the last couple of days.
But then, with the Yankees leading 7-4, Joe did something that I am convinced was just to make me vomit. To make everyone in the stands vomit. He must have had a bet with Hank on how many people he could make vomit. He put in Jose "walks the first guy and then gives up a homer" Veras.
And as sure as a minute is sixty seconds, Veras gave up a w--oh wait. OH GOD. HE DIDN'T. Two outs to setup Mo in the 9th.
It worked. This time. But I want Bruney in there in save situations. That's his damn job, isn't it? Setup man?
I'm chalking this one up to luck until I see some more evidence that Veras deserves to be a major leaguer.
Up next, the defending world champion Phillies, AJ vs. Myers. Should be good.
:I
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