Yankees 9, Blue Jays 3: Well fine.

You would think this is perspective playing tricks on you but C. C. Sabathia is actually that big relative to Yankee Stadium.

Oddly enough, whenever the Blue Jays have run a truly hideous lineup out there this season, they've played pretty well. And yesterday, this is what they had to offer in support of Brett Cecil:


McCoy SS
Johnson 2B
Bautista RF
Encarnacion 1B
Lawrie 3B
Teahan LF 
Molina DH (I would remind you here that "DH" signifies a player designated to hit)
Arencibia C
Wise CF


Just crazy enough to work? In fact, far, far from it, largely because C. C. Sabathia is kind of awesome. The awesomest? No. But he is reliably at least somewhat awesome, and possess, in the words of our game's greatest poet Roger Angell, "Sunny looks and pavilion-sized pants and weird, white-toed spikes." Exactly. Home runs by Jeter, Rodriguez (anybody want to join me in stopping saying "A-Rod"?), and Swisher bested Jose Bautista's 40th of the season, and that was that. Brett Cecil got pretty mad in the dugout after his day was done, and I understand where he's coming from, but getting swept in Yankee Stadium happens, man. It happens.


KS