Fun at Fenway

The Yankees may be taking this idea of developing their farm system a little too seriously. Forced to start Tim Redding and Darrell May in the past week, the Yankees turned to prospect, Al Leiter, to pitch Sunday night. Since leaving the Yankees sixteen years ago, Leiter had won 148 games and three World Series. Sunday night he stymied the Red Sox leading the Yankees to a 5-3 victory while striking out a season-high eight.

Yes, the pitching is still a mess, the Yankees will rely on Kevin Brown’s creaky back tonight and career minor-leaguer, Aaron Small on Wednesday, but for the first time since April, the Yankees are a half game out of first place. The Orioles and Red Sox could have buried the Yankees in the standings and did not. All in all, things are pretty good in Yankeland this morning.

Unfortunately, the road trip doesn’t get any easier. First, it’s off to Texas for three games against the hot-hitting Rangers. Then, a four game set against the Angels, who look like the best team in the American League. Will the pitching hold up? Stay tuned.

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By Peter Trinkle on July 18, 2005 11:14 AM

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Tim N.

Fair points... :>)

sp

Dan Shaugnessy a bright guy? He's a self serving drama queen. He invented the the whole Curse thing to sell books and papers. He's bright in that sense, but thats more about exploiting the neuroses of your readership than it is about being a good baseball writer. I think he and Mike Lupica are WAYYYY overrated. Give me Mike and the Mad Dog for pro/con "analysis" over those clowns any day.

Tim N.

Dan Shauggnasy of the Boston Globe (who's usually a really bright guy) proclaimed the Yanks dead and buried, and the AL East race over, a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if he can proclaim that a couple of more times before the season's over.

You Yankee haters just make me smugly chuckle.

PS: White Sox are overrated. Angels would eat them up in a playoff series.

Tom

The Angels look like the best team in the American League, if the White Sox were in the NL.

The Yankees' record against teams with equal or better records is well below .500 this year. Pitching wins championships, the Yankees have very little of it.