THAT TIME OF THE YEAR
If you are a Yankee fan and just looked up, they lost 4
straight to the Oakland A’s! The reason I mention this is that this the time of
year when collapse is a nasty word to a first place team. Granted there is a
lot of room for the Yankees at this writing, a 6-game lead, but it was 10,
which should look very insurmountable and daunting.
Most teams have to hit the skids at least once in the course
of the season, and so the Yankees are hitting theirs, or, are they? This is
either the start of something big or just a blip on their way to the pennant.
The teams in their division are not so great this year, in spite of their
records.
Of course this point of view is from the top looking down,
looking upward is the Baltimore Orioles, Nee; St. Louis Browns. While the
Yankees lost four straight, the Orioles were winning 5 straight! Picking up
those 4 games is what starts a team on a surge right up to the end of the
season. Once they get hot, the leaders start looking over their shoulders and
the pressure builds.
This is not a prediction, but something to consider: the
Orioles have managed to surprise everyone this year, they helped themselves
over the winter and they have a very capable manager in Showalter, who has no
one particular hitter or pitcher carrying the team, and there lies the
possibility of a miracle run for the birds. It seems everyday someone else
picks them up.
If the Yanks don’t take all their games from the slumping hitters on the Mariners,
then the hunt is on.
That’s all I wrote, folks!
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