Sunday, May 4, 2008

Three down, three up

How quickly things can change. At the end of the Detroit series the Yankees were down trodden and defeated. They were hurt and it looked like they wouldn't be able to right the ship. Oh what one series can do. The Mariners aren't exactly a juggernaut, but they did throw the top of their rotation at the Yanks and thanks to some awful Seattle defense they dropped Erik Bedard, Felix Hernandez and Carlos Silva in succession.

Now the Yankees defeating Silva is nothing special. He has a career ERA over eight against them. But defeating a lefty as good as Bedard and knocking off King Felix is pretty impressive no matter how badly the Seattle defense was. The starting pitching was solid from the Yankees and that's all they need. We also saw some good work from the bullpen. Farnsworth has actually been decent. Not spectacular, but there are good signs in what he is doing like his strike outs, which are up from last year. Edwar has been solid so far and Joba and Mo have been filthy as usual.

And who would have thought that on May 4, Melky Cabrera would be leading the Yankees in home runs and be second in slugging percentage to Johnny Damon of all people. Thank the gods the Yanks never moved him for Mike Gonzalez.

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