Does Two In A Row Count As A Streak?

The Yankees won a game for the second straight night.  I'm not sure whether or not we can count it as a winning streak, but I'll take what I can get with this team.  And what we got tonight was a great offensive showing all the way around and a great pitching performance from everyone involved, especially Chien-Ming Wang.

Wang really looked great, bouncing back nicely from his rough starts his last two times out.  Zero runs in 7 innings, giving up just 4 hits.  Unfortunately, he also walked 4 while striking out just 3.  I'm not concerned about the strikeouts, he's not a strikeout machine.  However, the 4 walks is showing a few residual signs of his struggles during the road trip from hel1.  But, since he did induce 14 groundouts, I think it's safe to say that Chien-Ming Wang is back in ace-of-the-staff form.  At least for now.  He'll probably get one more start before the break, this weekend against the Angels.  I'm really hoping he's back to stay because we all know that the Yankees need to play flawlessly to beat that team.

The relief were no slouches tonight.  Proctor pitched an inning and was actually able to strikeout 2 guys.  He gave up a hit, but there was no damage done.  Hits happen.  It's just nice when they aren't accompanied by 3 walks and an idle closer.  And then we got our first look at Edwar Ramirez.  He wasted no time in making himself known as he struck out the side.

I'm so happy with tonight's pitching performance I could burst.

I'm also pretty darn happy with tonight's offensive performance.  The Yankees got their 3rd straight good offensive showing, scoring 8 runs on 14 hits.  Jeter led the way with 3 hits and 2 RBI.  I wonder if Joe has solved the 3-hole mystery by plugging him in there.  It makes sense.  With a .343 batting average he'll provide some protection for A-Roddasaurus.  And it gets My Boy Melky! a chance to stay near the top of the order where he belongs.  Speaking of Melky, he joined Jeter and Cano by knocking in 2 runs.  And even Bobby Abreu managed a multi-hit game, going 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.  A-Rod was the only Yankee starter to not get a hit, although I suspect that it may have been a lingering affect of his hamstring injury.  Hopefully it's not a long-term linger and more a result of being a little cautious/tentative the first day after the injury happened.

Tomorrow we see Moose take on Johan "The Pitching God" Santana.  I don't have a very good feeling about the Yankees chances of extending their mini-streak to 3 games.  Santana is a lefty.  The Yankees can't hit lefties.  Santana is awesome.  The Yankee bats are unpredictable.  We'll see how it goes and hope for the best.

Go Yankees!