Against The Wall

Kenny Rogers pitched his tail off and probably had the game of his life. The Yankee bats didn't do anything to help Randy Johnson, who pitched a pretty decent game. The lack of timely hitting is killing us over these last 2 games.
My friend Dave raised a pretty good point in a comment on an earlier entry and i actually thought of this a few weeks ago. The Yankees are beginning to look like the Yankees of 2004 and 2005. Instead of moving runners and hitting the ball, it looks like they're swinging for the fences, which is never good. I wondered if the team chemistry was at all affected by the return of Sheffield and Matsui, and the removal of Melky Cabrera, Bernie, and the other fill-ins. These last 2 games they haven't looked like the same team.
We had a few miscues tonight that worked against us, but in the end, it wouldn't have mattered I guess, though the flow of the game might have been changed. Who knows? But we can't play the what if game? But we will, for argument's sake. What if we didn't blow the pickoff? What if they called Pudge out at third? What if it didn't rain the other day? We can't think about it. At the end of the day, what happened, happened. And what happened, was nothing. at least from a Yankee standpoint.
The back is against the wall, and we must now rely on (gulp) Jaret Wright. It's not an impossible task. He's been pretty solid lately. We can still pull this off. We've done it before. We can do it again. Heck, if the Yanks can take 5 in a row in Fenway, or drop 4 straight in the ALCS with a 3-0 lead, anything is possible.
I'm tired. Go Yankees!
J