IT’S ALL OVER
Well, it was a nice dream, but it’s over now. America’s best baseball team, bar none, fell tonight, and the hopes of another World Series Championship to add to their already long list are gone. But, we may be beaten and bloody now, but you just wait until next year!
Ok, it’s true, they didn’t do so well this year, anyway, but they came on like gangbusters at the end and won the AL East Championship again. You can never count the Bronx Bombers out, not until the last out of the last inning has been posted. They just keep on ticking, those Pinstriped Boys of October. They beat themselves this year, as usually happens. Very few teams that beat them actually play better than they do. The problem comes when they don’t take advantage of the opportunities they are offered.
How many times can you strand one, two, even three men on base because the batters just don’t get it done? Apparently with these guys the number is infinitesimal. IT is my belief, based on my observations, that had all the men left on base during each of the first three games had been brought home by those batting behind them, there would have been no need for games four and five, because the Yanks would have swept the series. Again. It just wasn’t to be, however.
And tonight, one play in the outfield buried them. Sure, there were other things done wrong after that, but nothing that would have mattered if either Sheffield or Crosby had called the ball in right center field. That collision and the resulting runs that scored instead of the final out of the inning would have made the difference. But, nothing can be done about it now.
So, the baseball season is over for we Yankee fans for this year, but once again you can hear the murmurs from East Coast to West - “Wait ’til next year.” So we will.
