That ugly line for David Robertson is going to hurt, but in all a wonderful day at the Stadium for the 2010 Yankees. Nick Johnson gets off the skids with a homer. Cano continues to hit the ball hard. Posada too.
And of course there’s the wonderful Andy Pettitte, the poster boy for pitchers who pitch, not throw. Pettitte’s never had no-hit stuff. In fact, he’s always pitched to contact, counting on his great pickoff move and heavy cutter-induced ground ball double plays to help him wiggle out of trouble. But on days when he has a good fastball, a good cutter and command of both sides of the plate he can make batters swing and miss, as he did today. He’s one of my favorite Yankees of the present dynasty precisely because he does what he does without world-beater stuff. Even at his worst, with nothing on the ball, he’ll go out there and give you 6 innings and keep you in the game. But he was better than that today.
If you’re looking for any kind of downer today–besides the meatballs from Robertson–it would be the Yanks failure to deliver a knockout blow with a big hit. That’s a disease the 2009 Yankees suffered from as well, but this team still did manage to get in the insurance runs.
And it was just great to see his former teammates mobbing Hideki Matsui after the ring presentation ceremony. I still think the Yanks should have resigned Godzilla (and for those keeping score, Hideki has played a game in the outfield–one more game in the field this season than Nick Johnson has played). But these days I’m trying to be more of a glass-half-full kind of guy. Now its up to Vazquez to show the Bronx fans that he’s not suffering from a 2004 hangover.
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