The Yankees are How Many Games Back? |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 3:06 pm |
| Tags: sports, baseball, rays, red sox, yankees |
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The Bronx that was burning just a few short weeks ago now resembles a city without the faintest ash mark or sign of distress. When the Yankees fans awoke this morning, they found their beloved bombers a mere 3 games back of the first place Rays and 3 games back of the second place Red Sox. Not too shabby when you consider stacks of newspapers showing an 8 game deficit are still stacked in a few recyclable bins. The question is: how the heck did they do it? The answer: I have no idea. It just doesn't make any sense. Melky Cabrera is batting .244, and Robinson Cano is riding a hot streak to a meager .263 average. In fact, Johnny Damon and Alex Rodriguez are the only starters with respectable averages over the .300 mark. Their ace is on the DL until September at the earliest, while their All Star left fielder may not return at all (his replacement, Brett Gardner, is hitting a less than respectable .161). Jorge Posada is on the DL, and will either join [ Full article ] |
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