CC Sabathia has won. He's also won against the Red Sox and that is a huge hurdle for him. Tonight, CC went only 6 innings, and gave up 10 hits and only 2 runs. He also struck out 10. The best part of the night was the Yankee bullpen kept the Sox at 2 the rest of the way. Don't look now but CC Monster has his 18th win tonight. Excellent.
The Red Sox left a ton of runners on base tonight and it was great to see. The Sox left 16 men on base tonight. They threatened all night but the Yankees pitching did what they needed to do to hold them down, and they did and it was brilliant work tonight. Usually those Sox are constantly moving the runners over. Not tonight and that benefited us, for sure.
Francisco Cervelli hit a homer tonight. He also got hit by a pitch. Once again the Yankees get hit by a pitch... and the Yankees are classy. No retaliation. When Cervelli got hit, the benches cleared and that adrenaline is the way it used to be. Yankee squares off against Red Sock and it's "Come at me bro! Come at me!" Look, this was intentional and while the Yankees don't retaliate, it's time, they need to tomorrow night. Anyway... it was good to see Cervelli. You have to love his passion, and it was good to give Martin a day off.
Robinson Cano had a nice hit to score Curtis Granderson. It was a RBI's double off the green monster. Love that Cano is so clutch.
Eric Chavez gets 2 RBIs off of Lackey tonight. Chavez has been productive all year, when he's healthy of course. You have to have respect for a guy like this who has been patient in his whole career due to injury but when he's healthy, he comes through. Good for him.Boone Logan was electric tonight and he's really coming into his own. It's about time. Yes, it's true, I'd like a lefty specialist in the pen besides Logan, but clearly he reads Bleeding Yankee Blue and feels the pressure because lately he's been rolling. Logan had a huge strikeout in the 7th inning to get out of the inning. Read (THE EXTRA LEFTY THE YANKEES DON'T HAVE.)
Mariano Rivera got his 35th save tonight. It started out alittle wacky because David Ortiz led off the inning with a double. But slowly but surely Mariano came through for the save. Beautiful. Mo needs 6 saves to get to 600.
One last thing...Brett Gardner made an incredible running catch in the 7th inning to literally save the game for the Yankees. If he doesn't catch that, the Red Sox probably capitalize on that and possibly win the game. Great defense Brett, love it.
Girardi got thrown on on a hit by a pitch, swing by Saltalamacchia. Trust me, it was a swing and Girardi was right to argue this call. Bad call by the ump and Girardi shouldn't have been called out. Ridiculous.Final tonight: Yankees 5 - Red Sox 2
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