WHY IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL IN THE BRONX

Just a workman-like effort by our boys today. Awesome starting pitching by Bartolo Colon before he got hurt (I'll discuss that in just a bit), big home runs from A-Rod, Grandy, and Tex, and the tag team of David Robertson and Bonne Logan out of the bullpen combined to shutout the Cleveland Indians.

Once again we had another pitcher beam one of our guys. This is the 6th Yankee to get hit in this home stand. Listening to the post game show on YES you can kind of pick up that most of the players and Girardi thought it was intentional. As Joe said he thought it was "a little fishy". And clearly the home plate umpire did as well because he immediately ejected Indians starter Mitch Talbot. I also believe it was intentional. Just to coincidental when the Yankees take a pitcher deep and the next guy, in this case A-Rod, gets plunked. I think the umpire made the right call. It has to stop. For me, my anger usually subsides when the Yankees go out and take it to the other guys, like they did today. Just a nice win, a business-as-usual like win for the Bronx Bombers today and lets hope we make it three in a row tomorrow afternoon.

Final score today: Yankees 4 - Indians 0

Some other game notes:

• So Colon pulled up lame after covering first in the 7th. Not a good sign that he was pulled and is on his way to hospital for an MRI. Too early to tell how severe the injury is but lets hope the magic in Colon's bottle hasn't run out!
• A-Rod is just on fire. Hitting some serious "A-bombs". He's locked in and we are loving it!
  

• Robertson continues his Houdini act. Comes in unexpectedly to relieve the injured Colon. In an inning-and-a-third worth of work today he gave up two hits and even balked but, once again, when the pressure is on, he shuts down the other side. Throwing gas (consistently hitting 95mph today) and with some sick breaking balls he fanned 4 Indians without giving up a run. Robertson has an outstanding ERA of 1.44 for the season.
• Jeter was hitless today so he remains just 9 hits shy of 3,000. Needs a few multiple hit games now for the remaining home stand if he wants to get that historic hit in the Bronx. Come on Jeets, you can do it!
  

• Granderson hit HR #20 and Tex followed suit with his 19th. Its getting interesting how their home run "chase" is really looking more and more like the Maris and Mantle historic "chase" 50 years ago. Casey wrote about this about a week ago. Stay tuned...
• Gardner caught stealing two more times today. Just a total mystery how a guy with that much speed cannot seem to run the bases. Can we get Tim Raines or Rickey Henderson on the phone? :)
  

--Mikey Blue, BYB Senior Writer
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