Go Yankees!
The blogger wrote nervously, hoping not to anger the gods of baseball with his over-the-top enthusiasm...but this fall pennant race is shaping up to be a classic. Last night the Yanks beat the O's, 3-2, in the bottom of the 9th, when rookie Bubba Crosby hit only his third home run in the major leagues. (You have to root for any baseball player named Bubba.) Meanwhile, the Red Sox were losing to the actually pretty talented Devil Rays, 8-7, despite the heroics of David Ortiz, who drove in four runs. That guy is singlehandedly keeping the Red Sox in the division race.
And over in the AL Central, the surging Indians—they've won 13 out of their last 14, yikes—beat the division-leading White Sox, 8-7, to pull within two and a half games.
As Phil Rizzuto would say, Holy Cow!
(By the way, is Phil Rizzuto still alive? Anyone?)
Regarding the Red Sox...I will not cheer too loudly at their decline, as they're still in first and the Yanks have to play them three times at Fenway, which is going to be tensetensetense. But I will remind everyone that Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy wrote back in June that the race was going to be a laugher for the Sox. "Don't worry about the Yankees..." he opined. "It's not even going to be close."
Thus ensuring the return of The Curse to Fenway Park....
