Finally an exciting game with the Red Sox winning it in the ninth with Coco driving in Tek from second. Wooo. And the Yankees got blown away by Baltimore. Wooo. Except Boston was playing Tampa, the worst team in baseball. Hmmm. But their Kazmir was pitching, worthy on any roster. Wooo.
This is a funny season, perhaps one of transitions that no one wants to talk about – Shilling, Ortiz and Manny not being that young anymore – and a year that some of the recent acquisitions have pointed themselves out ans not being what they might have been – Drew and Willi Mo in particular. But the sluice gates of money have opened and the Red Sox will buy. Gagne was finally dominant yesterday in the eighth after two utter failures in Baltimore last weekend without which the Sox would be seven rather than five games up in mid-August.
And they are up five. Sure the Yankees decided to be Yankees finally, largely on the backs of young players on the mound and at the bat. The upcoming games are going to be interesting. Dice-K should crush Tampa and there is a double header tomorrow against the Angels, the evening game of which may see my new pal Clay Buchholz taking the mound. Hopefully, too, Baltimore will win again and Detroit will not suck and will take a few from the Yankees, too – especially as they face Bedard and Verlander in the next few games, two of the best pitchers in baseball.