I'm a sarcastic person by nature, and also a pessimist. So like I mentioned yeterday, when I saw Jeter had hit a couple of home runs on Sunday, those things combined to give me a vision of Jeter having a wonderful series against the Royals in helping the New York Yankees sweep this series, getting his slashline back to Jeter-like levels, and all becoming Right & Good in the Yankees' world...
...at the expense of the Royals.
While that story indeed starting writing itself yesterday, I will take one bit of hope -- the Yankees were lucky to win that game. Like the loss vs. the Oakland A's last Friday where the A's were essentially outplayed but had the good fortune of bunching their hits together in one inning to score enough runs to win, last night's game had some of the same flavor.
The Yankees got a hit with the bases loaded, and the Royals didn't. Both of the Yankee hits to drive in the 3 runs they scored were essentially seeing-eye singles...which, when you think about it, seems like a depressing way to lose to a team that leads the league by far in home runs.
In any case, the Royals are going to be in deep trouble if they don't start scoring -- the Royals last 4 losses were caused by them scoring a total of 7 runs in those games. It's going to happen to all teams, of course, but given how the Royals are currently comprised, they can't really afford to squander too many opportunities to win when their pitching staff does well.
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