Anyone ever see the Disney movie Fantasia?

I’m sure I don’t have to explain why I ask this. You may just get the correlation between the above image & last night’s Yankees vs. Orioles game. Let’s get right down to it.

Baltimore started the game off with a run in the 1st and we quickly caught up in the 3rd with Hinske’s second solo shot of the series, so we had what I like to call a “neutral ballgame” up until the 7th inning. Alex came up with two ribbies, but Nolan Reimold responded almost instantly in the 8th with a solo-homer off of Brian Bruney. Bruney always makes me nervous. I’m not the religious type, but I started saying my Hail Mary’s when I saw him warming up in the pen.

As quickly as he was brought to the mound, he was sent back to the dugout and replaced with Cokie, then HUUUGHES! Girardi had answered my prayers. =]

Now, before I get to the best part of the game, I just want to say that our man “Z.Z.” did a great job starting last night! He got his 16th win of the season and was even named the AL’s Pitcher of the Month for August. You go boy!

I’m not gonna milk it…We simply owned the Orioles in the 9th inning. Do you understand me? OWNED. I kinda wanted to feel bad for them, but I was too busy enjoying this little rally the Yanks had going on. A bunch of us that were watching the game and tweeting simultaneously were joking about some insurance runs, but heyyy…we didn’t expect 7! Not that we were complaining. *smile*

Oh, and remember those two ribbies Alex got in the 7th? Well, he doubled it up in the 9th for a total of four ribbies. Suhweet. By the end of the night all of our starters had at least one hit.

Swish finally ended the 9th inning rally with a pop up to CF. Awww =( It had to end sometime. What had me tripping out about this rally wasn’t all the runs we scored, oh nooo. It was the fact that we had 2 outs on the board and we just kept bringin ‘em in! I love it!

To end this entry I wanted to point some things out. Interesting little tidbits: Teixeira had the night off (would you imagine if he would’ve had a piece of the action?), Swisher was on first (and did a good job I must say), Molina had an RBI (doesn’t surprise me), and Alex proved to the world that he comes through in the CLUTCH.

With another series in the bag, the Yanks hop a plane to Toronto for the Blue Jays series…which probably just finished (I’m behind)!

-So until next time fans, I leave you with this quote from George Steinbrenner’s Yankeeography and a picture of my favorite interview from *Tuesday’s post game…

“Always work as hard, or harder than anyone who works for you.”

-George Steinbrenner

 

yummyyy ;D