Welcome back to another random thoughts post. The Yankees just finished a series against the defending World Champion Houston Astros and won two out of three games. Overall, the Yankees went 5-2 against Houston in their season series. Last year, they went 2-5. Let’s hope this winning continues if they were to meet in the playoffs again this year.
Anyway, let’s get into it, shall we?
- Watching the Yankees beat Houston is a lot of fun.
- Tuesday’s game wasn’t fun until the ninth inning.
- What a sloppy performance.
- But hey, they won.
- And how about Brett Gardner coming back to life.
- Usually, he starts off hot and cools down in the second half.
- This season, he had been ice cold to start and is now heating up as the weather does the same.
- And isn’t Gleyber Torres great?
- I enjoy watching him play.
- Well, when he’s not making errors in the field.
- He’s hitting well for someone his age.
- I was worried about Miguel Andujar after that collision with Yuki Gurriel during Wednesday’s game.
- Didi asked him what 1+1 equaled and Andujar laughed.
- It’s good to know that our players know basic math.
- And how about Luis Severino?
- It’s relaxing watching his starts unlike Sonny Gray’s starts while can be agonizing.
- The personal catcher thing isn’t really helping.
- Apparently, it doesn’t really matter who’s catching him.
- He works better when he’s fast.
- If he takes too long on the mound, it screws him up.
- He’s opening the series against Baltimore that starts on Thursday night.
- Bad news: Gray is 1-3 with a 5.40 ERA in his career at Camden Yards.
- Good news: Aaron Judge really likes hitting against the Orioles.
- The Orioles are bad and the Yankees should beat them.
- Should.
- Back to Houston, can we talk about how nice it is that the Yankees can beat Dallas Keuchel?
- Remember dreading his starts against the Yankees?
- Justin Verlander is pitching out of his mind.
- And it’s not at all suspicious that a guy who is 35 and has over 2600 innings on his arm and who was plagued by injuries is suddenly pitching better than he did in his 20s.
- Not at all.
- My main reason for pointing this out is because he’s so sanctimonious when it comes to PED and I’d love nothing more than to see him get caught doing something illegal.
- The Astros are heading home to play the Red Sox this weekend.
- Hey! The Red Sox are finally playing a good team for once.
- Their schedule has been a cakewalk so far this season.
- The Yankees are now in the cakewalk part of their schedule.
- And they need to take advantage of this stretch.
- Remember when the Yankees were 9-9? It seems so long ago.
- As if it wasn’t this season.
- During that stretch, they lost three out of four to the Orioles.
- Hopefully, they can return the favor and beat up on a terrible Orioles team.
- They were able to beat the Angels two out of three this past weekend.
- The one loss was Gray’s start.
- Of course.
- I really don’t like going into Gray’s starts and assuming it will be a loss.
- CC Sabathia isn’t looking great either.
- He started off well but now he’s losing a bit of that early season magic.
- And his starts seem to go the same way.
- He’ll be great for the first few innings and then fall completely apart in the fourth or fifth inning.
- Maybe this stretch of “easier” games will help him out
- Maybe it could help Gray out as well.
- Giancarlo Stanton didn’t get hot until July of last year and then he went HAM.
- So I’m not worried about him yet.
- I’m glad that after looking dreadful at the plate on Tuesday that Gary Sanchez turned things around on Wednesday.
- Can we talk about this play?
- I mean, come on.
- It worked out perfectly.
- What a carom off the backstop.
- Jeez.
- If Chapman tried that 10 times, he wouldn’t be able to do it.
- Yankee magic!