We completed a 4 game sweep of the Royals and are now in first place overtaking the Rays. The Yankees now have sole possession of last place. On Tuesday, Masterson, making his 2nd big league start, went 6.1 innings and gave up just one run on just 3 hits. Our bullpen held them in check and Paps came in to wrap up the 8th and 9th and got his 13th save of the year. After the game, Masterson was sent back down to AAA.
Wednesday's game, I was interested in seeing how Bartolo Colon was going to perform. He did not disappoint. He went 5 strong innings, giving up 6 hits and got the win as we won 6-3. It is strange seeing the former Cy Young Award winner in our jersey, but if he continues to pitch like that, I will be looking forward to seeing him pitch every 5 days. I would imagine that since Colon looks like he is going to be doing well, Bucholz will probably remain in AAA, at least for a while. What will be interesting is what we are going to do when Schilling comes back. Maybe Wake will go to the pen although the thought of that scares me to no end. But it is good that we have a problem such as this. Too much quality starting pitching.
On Thursday, we completed the sweep by beating the Royals 11-8. DiceK got his 8th win of the year and is now 8-0. He continued though to walk players and his pitch count skyrocketed early. He only went 5.2 innings and gave up 3 earned runs but he walked 6 batters. I still don't know about him, but if he can continue to go out there and win, that is what we have him out there to do. Just the walks scare me and I hope that this doesn't come back to hurt us in the postseason. Drew and Lowell both hit grand slams and we took an 11-3 lead. Our bullpen let them back in the game, but we held on and won and Paps had to come in to shut the door on them in the 9th.
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