Deep Breath...If I were to get on the lap top last night and type something up I would have probably said this is my last blog, this makes me sick, and I've made bad calls. My Yankee confidence has completely got in the way of the clear picture. Texas has outplayed the Yankees all series long, and backing one beating by another last night. The Yanks took a 10-3 loss last night after A.J. Burnett nearly missed qualifying for win. The Yanks had a 3-2 lead, and weird things just started happening. The minute Lance Berkman's homerun in the second inning was reversed into just a long strike, you just got a bad feeling that things weren't going to go the Yanks' way.
The Yankees failed in a bottom of the 4th rally, the same rally in which Mark Teixeira pulled his hamstring, and is now out for the entire postseason. After the Yanks put a goose egg up in an inning where they really could have pulled away, and a superstar injury, you could just see it in their faces that they were beaten, yet they still had a 3-2 lead. In the top of the 5th, A.J. Burnett had 2 outs, and a runner on second. After a managers' choice to intentional walk a David Murphy who has stung the Yanks in the past, Bengie Molina homered on the first pitch he saw from Burnett. This put the Rangers up 5-3, and they would never look back.
Now during the intentional walk of Murphy, A.J. Burnett almost threw a pitch away, and that right there should have been the indicator. This year, none of us had ever seen A.J. recover after looking shaky, so why would this situation be any different? It seems to me like Girardi wanted Burnett to qualify for a win, and prove he made the right move. Besides the bad managerial decisions, the Yankees just simply aren't hitting, and the Rangers are making all the plays. Whether it's in the field or at the dish, the Rangers are doing it when it counts. Normally, it is the Yankees who catch all of these breaks, and get lucky. This is unfamiliar territory for the Yankee team being down 3-1 in the ALCS. Can they flip the switch?
CC Sabathia faces off against C.J. Wilson in possibly the final game at Yankee Stadium this year, where fans decide to threaten A-Rod, bobble foul balls, and leave early. Now this is a game where you must believe CC is going to go out there and do what he does best, giving the team a chance to win. Still, on the other side, Wilson isn't a bad pitcher. You will know right away what kind of swag, if any, the Yanks have. Game starts in 25 minutes. Let's believe in this thing, one game at a time, and don't even think about Cliff Lee waiting at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully my next article will be talking about how tired the Yanks got from scoring 100 runs today.
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