Stats of the Day, 20,000, and Final Destination/Lost

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Here, courtesy of Peter Abraham are your stats of the day:

 

PITCHING, PITCHING, PITCHING: The Yankees are 21-0 when the opposition scores three runs or less.

THAT’S RISP AS IN REALLY INSIGNIFICANT SCORING PRODUCTION: The Yankees were 3 of 28 with runners in scoring position in the Boston series and are 7 of their last 62, a fine .113 average.

 

It's no more simple than this: pitch and get hits with men in scoring position. It's a simple game in that way.

One last thought: I was reading this article (totally unrelated to baseball) about the woman who missed the Air France flight that crashed...only to die in a car crash this week. How incredibly sad and unfortunate that is. But I couldn't help but think of the movie Final Destination where, although the main characters survived a plan crash, they all started dying one by one because that was the natural order of things. I couldn't help but think of Lost and the ideas of fate and destiny. And then I watched the Yankees game last night and even though they had taken the lead, they had played so poorly and almost didn't deserve to win...and then, well, they didn't. The baseball gods couldn't possibly let them win a game where they made such bad base running mistakes, hit 1-11 with RISP, dropped easy fly balls, made bad bullpen decisions, etc. When I say this team is cursed against the Sox, last night is what I'm talking about.

But maybe that's about to change. Just opened my fortune cookie for today (seriously, as I was about to post this, I opened up the fortune): "Your secret desire to completely change your life will manifest"

Let's hope that means the Yankees are no longer cursed and that fate will guide them back to the World Series.