WHY STRANDED RUNS NEED TO SCORE

So it wasn't exactly Freddy Garcia's night, he struggled early on and gave up some runs. Guess what, sometimes pitchers do that and that's why you have a team behind you. You're teams job, or in Garcia's case, the Yankees need to get those runs back, plain and simple. Look, Freddy settled in and did OK, he gave up 3 runs, the problem was the Yankees couldn't come back. You want to blame Freddy for that? Don't. Stranding men on base has nothing to do with Garcia. It does have everything to do with the Yankees offense.

The Yankees had huge opportunities to score, yet, they ended up leaving 11 men on base. Many have said early on that the home run could hurt the Yankees long term. That appears to be happening right now because stranding 11 men on base in 1 game is not a good thing. Look, the homer is awesome and Cano had a few tonight... that's great, but they need to have clutch hits with men on base to get runs on the board. They're not doing it enough and I want them too, because at the end of the day, that's baseball.(photo: Getty)
Like I said, Cano looked amazing and you have to get excited watching him play as well as he does. He's in the batter's box and he looks so natural. He's very talented and I know this is his year for the MVP or batting title or something special.

Ricky Romero pitched well tonight for the Jays and he's a very good pitcher. Give him credit and give the Blue Jays pitching credit as a whole, they kept the Yankees to 3 runs and that big inning in the 8th could have been much much bigger with the bases loaded if the Yankees were able to hit solid. The Jeter strikeout showed me age tonight, sadly. I never like to criticize the Captain, but it was clear to me he was sluggish. The Swisher ground out just deflated me. I smelled pie for a bried moment... and then it was gone.

What can you say, the Blue Jays won fair and square tonight, but I'll preach what I always preach... the Series, win the Series and you make the playoffs.

Final Score tonight Blue Jays 5 - Yankees 3. Tomorrow we come back and win one.

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