Meat Loaf sang about it in 1977, and for the most part he’s right…
TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD.
When you think about it in a baseball context, it’s true.
If a team wins 2 of every 3 games played, they would end up
with an amazing 108 wins at the end of the season.
Look at it another way …the Yankees recently called up 3 position
players from the minors : Sanchez, Judge & Austin.
If 2 out of 3 become solid major league players the Yankees will
be very pleased. They also called up 3 young pitchers .. Cessa,
Green and Heller. Again, if 2 of 3 proved they belong in the bigs,
Yankee brass would be extremely satisfied.
So why does it feel deflating and simply not good enough that
the Yankees won 2 of 3 this weekend from the Baltimore Orioles ?
Well, they took the first two games and had a chance to sweep.
The Yankees have been trying to play catch-up all season.
They have tried to dig out of a hole they dug themselves by starting
the season with a 9-17 record, mainly because they could not hit
the ball and score runs early on.
They had a chance on Sunday to jump over 2 teams in the wild-card hunt and pull
within 1 1/2 games of the team they were hosting.
Seattle, Houston & Detroit all lost on Sunday. By sweeping today, the Yankees
would have jumped over the M’s & Astros in the WC standings, and brought
themselves to within 1 game of the Birds in the loss column.
Instead they are 3 1/2 out of the 2nd WC with 4 teams ahead of them.
What makes today’s loss particularly frustrating is that it was the 7th time
this season the Yankees were attempting a 3 game sweep, and now they
are 0-7 in those games (outscored 43-7) & for the 7th time have to say..
Two out of Three Ain’t Bad.
It also felt like a huge let down because the Yanks outscored the O’s
27-14 over the weekend, and a sweep at home was just what the team
needed before going on the road vs. KC & then Baltimore @ Camden Yards.
Yes, they did sell off at the trading deadline, added key prospects to their farm,
and are in a sense satisfied just with the fact that their young home-grown prospects
are experiencing meaningful and pressurized late season baseball, but if the Yankees
want to make a legitimate run at the playoffs, they need to go into September like a ..
BAT OUT OF HELL !!
Right Meat Loaf ??
Right !!
As alway,
GO NYY
