What’s so great about New York? I mean, it’s a dying city. You read Death in Venice.
The New York Yankees keep denying George King a funeral as they stage a late comeback to beat the White Sox 6-4. Down 4-1, the Yankees scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth. The veterans came through as Derek Jeter, Robinson Cano, Alfonso Soriano, Alex Rodriguez, and Curtis Granderson all collected hits. Mariano Rivera came on for the save, and the White Sox waste an excellent outing by Chris Sale.
With the Orioles ninth inning comeback falling short, they lose to the Indians 4-3. That makes the race for the AL Wild Card a bit tighter among the trailing teams. For the moment, the Yankees are two back of the Rays, the Orioles 2 1/2 back, and the Indians three back. Kansas City and Seattle are tied late in the game, while Tampa Bay and the Angels are just underway. We could have five teams separated by 3 1/2 games tomorrow morning.
The Yankees stayed close through August overachieving for months with a triple A lineup. They get Soriano in a trade, Arod, Granderson and now Jeter back from injuries and all these alleged baseball experts really couldn’t predict that they would be in the playoff mix. I don’t know if they are going to make the playoffs, but it was easily predictable that they would be in the mix when they managed to stick around for so long with a joke of a lineup. Where would they be if AROD,Granderson, Jeter all came back say just 2 weeks earlier?