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Even though I'm not a fan of the Yankees, it is a real shame to see that A-Rod has come off his early season pace, because I get a feeling that the fans will start booing him again which is not good because he is still up at the top of the leaderboards.
in his first 75 AB he belted 14HR and 34RBI and in his last 76 AB it's 1HR and 5RBI (and the HR and the 5RBI account for just 3 of those 76). He's crossed the plate 9 times in that spell, so he's not even getting driven home by the likes of Matsui and Posada who are posting averages of 0.275 and 0.371.
Do you think he'll snap back into a hot streak just as easily as he went cold?
Next week's series has the makings of some good psychology behind it. The Yankees are doing better at home (10-9) than they are against AL East (3-11), so the Yankees won't want to lose the series to the Red Sox. A 2-1 loss would put them at .500 at home and under .240 against the division and that will sting. Whether that would hurt the Yankees or just make them even more determined remains to be seen.
If we beat the Tigers in the second match tonight and go equal in the Interleague series the gap at the end of our next series will either be 6.5,8.5,10.5 or 12.5 GB for the Yankees. My head says the latter is what we want, but 6.5GB would keep us on our toes because we know how easy it is to lose 5 in a row against you.
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