Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 29, 2007
One Game a Week

The Yankees won and the Red Sox lost today to end the week with New York eight games behind Boston. That means a loss of 1/2 game by New York this week. Both had good weeks as Boston went 5-2 and the Yankees finished 5-3, including the completion of the suspended game (which finally counts).

One thing that's going to make the Red Sox tough to catch is the hitting of Manny Ramirez. Manny hit his seventh home run since the All-Star break today; he hit just eleven before the mid-summer classic. That's helped Boston to score 5.9 runs per game since the break, up from 5.0 prior to that. The Yankees now have nine weeks to make up eight games. A game a week still gives them the division.

Of course, New York doesn't need to win the division to make the playoffs. While they lost ground to Boston, they gain games on the Indians, the Wild Card leaders. Cleveland won just two of seven this week, and the Yankees now sit four games out of the post season.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:22 PM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
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Nothing could be better than having the Skanks not make it to the post season.

Posted by: emains at July 29, 2007 11:50 PM

With Cleveland looking worse and worse, I'm starting to resign myself to the Yankees taking the wild card. Maybe Seattle can nose them out, though. Hey, Minnesota's not out of it yet!

Posted by: Casey Abell at July 30, 2007 07:46 AM

Mixed feeling...

1. on the one hand , a ton of Yankee fans are indeed spoiled brats that deserve to lose and clear their head to realize the greatness they had the previlige to witness.

2. on the other hand, the hate for the Yankees is just getting ridiculas, why hate the team that strive mroe than anyone else to win, instead of those that doesn't give a damn about building a competitive baseball team. or more curioursly. rooting for the highest payroll team = bad and them not making the playoff = bust but rooting for the second highest payroll taem by a huge margin = good and them not making the playoff = ok ?

on a more realistic note though, the M's are smoke and mirror, they're python is terrible, they are barely over .500, they've been the luckiest team in the AL this year, while the Yankees aer by far the most unlucky by a huggggggggggggggge margin. (they have by far the second best python record in baseball right now) . I think the difference is just too huge that barring a ridiculas miracle (or disastor depending on point of view) the Yankees will take the wildcard.

Posted by: RollingWave at July 30, 2007 11:26 AM
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