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Week 8 in review: Ok, NOW the standings start counting

Now then, since its officially June, lemme gander at the standings in a serious manner for the 1st time this season…Rays in 1st, but not by much over the Yankees. Red Sox in 4th? Awesome.

Its officially, Im pleasently suprised at the Blue Jays. Canada might have no one left to win the championship in their own sport, but their lone baseball team seems to be holding their own in the toughest division in sports.

…and oh yeah, Halladay pitched a perfect game…though, I keep watching replays of the final out, and see Ryan Howard get a little too giddy before actually catching the ball. He may or may not have taken his foot off the bag a touch too early, though I doubt the umpire wouldve been paying attention since, ya know, who wants to be the as*hole in THAT situation?

Biggest Yankee Game:
None.
We played the Twins and Indians. Series victories were no brainers. The fact that we lost that one game against the Indians is a bit of a shock, but yeah, no doubt about the winning last week. I mean come ON! Its the Twins and Indians, Im suprised anyone expected any other ending.

Favorite Picture:


Morales.jpgD’oh!
…and thus, like Morales’ season, the California Anaheim Los Angeles Angels of Anahein season is over…Getting hurt when celebrating a walk off grand slam? Until now I only thought that would happen to a team like the Mets…

Fantasy:
So its sunday afternoon, me and a friend are ironing out a deal that would throw some big names to new teams. The F*cking Lozers would give up Longoria and Ethier and would get in return: Chase Utley, Neftali Feliz and Morales (just as he was breaking his ankle).
Luckily we scraped that trade once Morales’ injury came to light and we eventually pounded out another deal…

This Week:
We beat up the Orioles, then we finally get a piece of these upstart Blue Jays…

Lets hear it for the bullpen B Squad!

6 up over Boston with 9 to play…3 of those against the Red Sox. Magic number is 5 for the east, 4 for home-field through the playoffs. Glad I could get those numbers out of the way…

The Yankees just took 2 out of 3 from the Angels in LA. Neither of those victories came easy either. Victory #1 was tough since we blew a 5 run lead and had to use up both Aceves AND Hughes in the process. Our 2 most reliable middle relievers unavailable for today, we needed a good long start from Burnett…who gave us a good start, but not long enough for an easy bridge to Mo. The bullpen gave 3.1 innings of shutout relief to seal another Yankee win against a team we may very well face in the ALCS.

The heroics started with Marte, who just last night got into trouble by allowing a double and needing Hughes to bail him out. Today, it was up to him to do the bailing out, comming in with 2 on and 2 out to face Chone Figgins. Figgins hurt us last night with a longball, not the case today as Marte got him to fly out.
Overall, Marte put in 1 solid inning of work, then handed the ball off to Jonathan Albaladejo.

Thats where some pressure mounted. JA gave up a double to his lone opponent, then Phil Coke came in to help…and threw a wild pitch. Any hope for an Angel rally died there though when Coke struck out Kendry Morales to end the inning.

Coke was done after that, so who could possibly pitch the 8th? How bout letting Ian Kennedy made his regular season debut?

 

Kennedy.jpgWhat followed was an inning that kept most Yankee fans on the edge of their seats, but the Angels did not score. Not bad for a guy who had an aneurysm back in May.

9th inning came, and Rivera did not disappoint. Yankees won another one. They did it without Aceves or Hughes, which showed how deep their bullpen could go, which means everything deep in a playoff series.