The Yankees won 6-5 today over

There’s an old adage in sports, players are ‘clutch’, or ‘step up in the clutch’. In football, you hear it all the time, usually with Quarterbacks in big moments in big games. ‘Eli was clutch’ against the Patriots (twice, just sayin), ‘Troy Aikman was clutch’ against the 49ers’, etc. The point is, big time players are ‘Clutch’, not all the time but especially in big moments. Today, Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez were ‘Clutch’ for the Yankees.

The Yankees won today 6-5 over the Minnesota Twins in 10 innings. The game was one the Yankees had no business being close in, let alone winning.

Luis Gil started today and, the young gun struggled. 4 runs in the Minnesota 1st, and it looked bleak for a while. As a Yankee fan, working from home, eyes locked on the MLB App in between calls and tasks, it was a stressful day, I wasn’t angry, I wasn’t sad, I was annoyed.

Annoyed, because, despite Joey Gallo, (thanks for doing something positive), despite a Gallo home run it was 5-2 in the Bottom of the 8th. In the frame, the Yankees put 2 runners on, but had two outs, Aaron Judge came up. Judge has been good this year, but lately like the rest of the team, had struggled lately.

Ever the optimist, I thought ‘ehh, he’ll ground out, he’ll try to hard to hit one out and top one. God!’ Luckily, this time I enjoyed being wrong. Judge, to my surprise was patient, and jacked a 2-1 pitch in the stands in left center. Somehow, it was 5-5!

After the Yankee Pen stepped up led by Andrew Heaney of all people, as well as nervous escapes from Aroldis Chapman in Clay Holmes, it was the Yankees turn in the Bottom of the 10th.

Now, Gary Sanchez has had a rough few days. I didn’t see the moment on Friday, but something about a missed tag, and Gary has been getting evisersated on Social Media, so he was due, and a big hit would get Gary out of the collective Yankee fandom doghouse.

Sanchez came thru, ripping a single to left, scoring Gleyber Torres and sending Yankee fans home and at work happy, posting a 6-5 win.

As has been the theme in the second half, keep winning, keep winning series, play good baseball and control on what they can control. The good vibes and play are going to need to continue given the team’s recent struggles.

I will be back tomorrow with some final thoughts on week 1 of the NFL.