Lots of talk of retaliation against Big Papi tonight... Maybe even a bean ball to show the Yankees aren't soft.
Either way, a statement needed to be made about where the Yankees stood with Ortiz.
A statement was made, alright.
Nothing says "You can't do that in OUR yard" quite like David Ortiz hitting ANOTHER homer... this one in the first inning.
The statement?
The Yankees pitching staff that looked really good on their west coast swing just might be as thin as their fans feared.
Wow. The Yankees shut down the Angels, A's and Mariners line ups. Congrats. Now you are playing the varsity line up.
The result?
Well Freddy Garcia and A. J. Burnett looked damn good against the A's, Blue Jays, Mets and Royals recently... but Garcia couldn't get out of the third against the Sox.
And Burnett let up 7 earned in less than 6.
Meanwhile Wakefield wasn't exactly Cy Young or Roger Clemens... but crept one game closer to them.
Oh... one more number?
The Red Sox Magic Number?
102!!!!
How will Papi ever recover?
I look at the Red Sox and I could see them maybe winning 87 games this year, They have too many questions, The good news for the Red Sox is that they will clinch the division by Labor Day. The Yankees look like the team that we saw in 1966, Quite frankly I am not sure if this Yankee team could beat the the 1966 Yankees, pretty bad considering that most of those players are about 80 years old.
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