The Streak Ends at Eight

The Yankees came into today's game five games over .500, on an eight game winning streak and tied with Baltimore for 1st place in the division. Yankee fans would have given anything of any of those three last season. It took the Yankees until August last season to get to 5 games over .500. But, when your team is on a winning streak, you don't think or want it to end; despite the fact they play a 162 games a season. Tomorrow we start another streak...


To Catch a thief

Brett Gardner has finally put the fear of getting caught stealing aside and is using his speed when getting on base. As of game 13, Gardy has five stolen bases; he had 16 total all of last season. Run Forrest Run!


Starters finally found their rhythm

The starting rotation was lights out during Spring Training and then the light seem to go out on Tanaka, Pineda amd Severino (CC surprisingly looked good from his first start), with the team going 2-4 on the road. Then came the team home opener. It seemed like coming home was exactly what each starter needed. Pineda kicked it off taking a No Hitter into the 7th, going 7 2/3 innings, giving up 1 run on 2 hits. It was, it seemed, the turning point for the starters and the start of the a aforementioned 8 game winning streak.

Comeback Kids

Unlike last season's team, the 2017 Yankees have late inning rallies in their bones (to use a Michael Kay phrase).  Of eight home wins, three were come from behind. Judge being a big part of it. Judge is looking like the player eveyone had expected him to be.

Bird is the Word

Greg Bird got off to an awful start. It seemed every Yankee who got up, got a hit(s) except Bird.  Following Saturday's game, Greg was hitting .038 and starting to hear the boos from Yankee fans. With a home run and two doubles in Sunday night's game,  Bird came off the interstate; raising his BA to .138 and more importantly his confidence. (That said, he went 0-3 tonight; but the team as a whole only eeked out four hits total). Bird, like all players that go cold, have to remember they made it to the bigs for a reason and the hits will eventually come. Baseball is a sport of ebbs and flows.

Tonight's game saw another good start from Severino. It also saw the "no quit" this team has. The potential 9th inning rally, brought back memories of teams past.

Only time will tell what the rest of the season will bring, for now; I'm enjoying the games that are more fun than frustrating to watch.

As usual, Go Yankees.