New York Yankees are swallowing the American League whole
By Cory Claus
A Feeling in the Air
So, what about this team?
After starting 9-9, they have turned it around and won 15 of their last 17; sound familiar? And they had a nine-game winning streak. It seems I’ve read something about that kind of thing before. This one included wins of all shapes and sizes, as well.
There have been beat-downs (9-1, 14-1, 11-1) that have shown the run differential power of this talented-from-top-to-bottom team.
Back-to-back shutouts of Houston, one of the best offenses in baseball, showed the strong pitching can win games by itself. Meanwhile, the thunderous offense has shown what it can do when it needs to.
Right now, that looks like whatever it wants.
While the official record reflects only two walk-off wins in this run, which would be exciting enough, the team has done even better than that. For instance, only the home run hit by Gary Sanchez in the bottom of the ninth in New York on April 26th against the Twins is recorded with a w/o. But the next night in Anaheim Didi did the same in the top of the tenth.
When you do it in extra innings on the road, it’s akin to a walk-off win. The same is true when the Bombers came back in the top of the ninth on Thursday in Houston.
That makes four wins in their last AB’s over these fifteen wins, not two.