If you stayed up for Friday’s night game against the Angels, you were rewarded with a late-inning Yankee win thanks to none other than Didi Gregorius who is having an April to remember.
So before tonight’s late start, I figured I’d fire off some random thoughts about Friday’s win, the current seven-game winning streak and what lies ahead for the Yankees after this series with the Angels comes to a close.
- How about that win last night?
- I honestly didn’t think they’d pull it off.
- Not because I don’t think the Yankee can beat the Angels, it’s that damn ballpark.
- I still have PTSD from past playoff series.
- Didi Gregorius is having quite a month.
- He’s tied with Mike Trout for the lead in home runs.
- Who saw that coming?
- Last night’s home plate umpire, Alan Porter, had a large strike zone.
- So large he aided pitchers on both teams.
- Poor Aaron Judge. That strike zone screwed him a few times last night.
- Shohei Ohtani showed off his power last night by smacking a home run against Severino.
- It was an inside fastball that he hit with ease. It was quite a site.
- Annoying though.
- Let’s talk about the Twins series.
- Wow.
- The poor Twins, huh?
- I have no idea what is happening with them or why they can’t beat the Yankees.
- And it doesn’t matter who is on the team.
- This has been happening since 2002.
- And on Thursday, they thought they could eek out a win and then Fernando Rodney happened.
- Actually, that’s not true.
- Rodney threw a good pitch. Gary Sanchez just turned on it and hit it out.
- It happens.
- And it was incredible.
- So the Yankees, who were out of the Division race last week, are now only 2 1/2 games behind the Red Sox.
- Isn’t baseball great?
- What’s also great is that the Yankees still aren’t clicking on all cylinders.
- Can you imagine?
- They have the potential to be even better than they have been during this seven-game winning streak.
- The rest of the American League should be worried.
- After the Yankees play the Angels they head to Houston.
- Ugh.
- That horn.
- Can we prevent that horn from going off?
- Please?
- I hate it.
- And it’s a four-game series which is awful.
- I hate those.
- After Houston, they play the Indians and Red Sox.
- This is a tough stretch.
- Let’s hope they continue to play well.
- I think they should.
- Houston isn’t beating up on everyone.
- They can be beaten.
- So can the Indians.
- So can the Red Sox.
- Everyone can be beaten!
- Speaking of that, Joe Kelly was whining about his five-game suspension not being cut down.
- You threw a ball at someone, dude.
- Wah.
- Be more unlikeable.
- I would imagine that if/when he comes out of the bullpen during the series at YankeeStadium he will be greeted by an onslaught of vociferous boos.
- He deserves them.
- Tyler Austin’s slide wasn’t great but it wasn’t a “lets a throw a ball at him” to show him we didn’t appreciate it slide.
- The Sox are just reacting like that because of what Manny Machado did to Pedroia last season.
- Boys will be boys!
- I guess.
- Anyway, I’m not thrilled about tonight’s game being at 9 pm. I was hoping it would be earlier.
- I was nodding off last night.
- Until the ninth inning.
- Miguel Andujar woke me up.
- Hasn’t he been great?
- What a swing.
- What bat speed.
- And I like Gleyber Torres’ defense.
- He’s having better at-bats too.
- You should be excited about the future.
- I am.
- It will be a lot of fun.
- Let’s go Yanks.