The Final Stretch Begins

The yankees finished august with an 18-12 record. Highlights included the 2006 boston massacre where they swept the red sox in 5 games in fenway park. They went from being tied on August 1st, to having an 8 game lead on August 31st. Overall, it's been a very successful month, that because of the 5 game sweep and a major red sox collapse this month, has broken open the division and most likely knocked the red sox out of the playoff race.

The yankees just won 2 out of 3 games from the tigers, and if Proctor didn't blow the save, we would have swept them. Also, if Farnsworth didn't blow a save against detroit earlier this year, we would have swept the 7 game season series. We've still won the season series vs. the tigers 5-2.

Likely postseason opponents are the detroit tigers, chicago white sox, minnesota twins, and oakland a's. Over the next month, the playoff picture will become much more clear.

I've just added a magic number countdown at the top of the page. I'll try to update it as often as possible. Hopefully that number will be 0 very soon.

Yankees win 3 straight against Boston

The yankees have won the first 3 games so far in fenway park. We now lead the AL east by 4.5 games, a season high. We're also a season high 25 games over .500. In the first 3 games, new york scored a combined 39 runs off of red sox pitching. Friday night's game was the longest 9 inning game in major league history at about 4 hours, 45 minutes. Tonight, Mike Mussina will take the mound against Curt Schilling as the yankees look to win their 4th straight game over the red sox.

Another interesting note is that we've won 7 of the last 8 games vs. boston. We also lead the season series 8-5. With a little over a month left in the season, the yankees hope to defend their division lead as they go after their 9th straight AL east title.

Everything is looking good right now. I hope we can keep this up. September should be really easy for us. We just need to get through August, hopefully with our lead intact.

Yankees take 1st place

Since I last posted, the yankees have overtaken 1st place in the AL east. They are continuing to play their best baseball of the season. They have won 9 of the last 11 games and 19 out of 25 games. At the trade deadline we picked up Bobby Abreu, Corey Lidle, and Craig Wilson. Lidle's first start as a yankee was a very good one. He went 6 innings and gave up just 1 run. Abreu and Wilson have also been doing a very good job since arriving. Wang almost had back to back complete game shutouts when he pitched 8 shutout innings against the blue jays but was pulled before the 9th. The yankees swept toronto in that series. Tonight is the rubber match of a series with the orioles. Hopefully they can keep this momentum going and stay in 1st place.