Day 320

Fresh Start_320: The headache that is the June-July New York Yankees
What a way to set up a rubber game for the last game before the All-Star break. Clint Frazier hits his very first homer in Yankee Stadium with one out in the 9th launches a walk-off 3-run homer into the left field seats.

Frazier had an RBI triple to bring the bombers within one in the 7th. The legend of Clint Frazier will rise for at least right now, but more importantly—the Yankees are now just 3.5 back after the 1-0 loss the Red Sox suffered at the hands of the Tampa Bay Rays. It also sets up a Jimmy Nelson and Masahiro Tanaka rubber match before the break. What better way to go into the break than have your ace lead you to victory, while hoping Tampa Bay can play spoiler to Red Sox.

If that happens, the Yankees would be 2.5 games back heading to the break and the matchup at Fenway after the break. Tomorrow is a game that you have to get to end the first half of the year on a high note. It wouldn’t necessarily forgive the horrendous limp to the break that the bombers have had, but it would wipe the slate clean for the struggling bullpen and the stars on the DL. You also get two starts by Masahiro Tanaka—resetting him on an every fifth day rotation cycle.

I would feel better about the season and would like our chances in Boston against the Red Sox, being almost fully healthy. Starlin Castro will join the Yanks hopefully midway through the series, with a hopeful return of Matt Holiday after the All-Star break. I can be hopeful, but almost all of my hope has been deflated with the way the Yankees bullpen has been on life support going into the break. If there was any time during this season that we need Tanaka it is his next two starts to bring us back into the division race, and actually make it a race. But, anything is possible, and hopefully the Yanks run the table and are 2.5 games back of the Red Sox going into Fenway Park. See you in the second half.
Sources:(mlb.com, bleacherreport.com)

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