Winning streak ovaaaahhhhhh

What a fucking win.  What a fucking game.  That was one of the best regular season games I've ever watched.  The intensity at the Rogers Center tonight was unreal.  From the first inning the place was rocking.  Fans living and dying with every pitch.  The atmosphere was unreal.  Price and Nova duking it out again.  The Yankees putting on baserunner after baserunner to no avail.  Nova working through his kinks to keep the Blue Jays at 3 runs.  To have gone into this game and lost it would have been one thing but to have coughed it up in the 9th after Beltran's home run may have killed this team for good. 

And how about Carlos Fucking Beltran?  For the most part this year I've been able to stifle my hatred for the way he plays right field because I know if the Yankees make the playoffs he's going to rake.  And tonight, in his biggest AB as a Yankee, he did exactly that.  I remember looking at his face as he stood at the plate in the 8th.  The place was so loud the centerfield camera was shaking.  All the while Carlos looked as cool as a cucumber.  He took the next pitch and fucking blasted it into the right centerfield seats.  Shut the fuck up Toronto.

Then came Miller in the 9th.  Absolute panic attack.  A walk to Callobello and a base hit by Pillar and all of the sudden you start to wonder if Miller's about to come back down to Earth.  Blew the save against the Indians, gave up a run last night and put the Yankees on the brink again tonight.  After that wild pitch while Revere was up I was convinced it was over.  You could see he was visibly shaken up.  But he buckled down and struck out the final two batters, making Revere look foolish on a couple of sliders before winning an epic 12-pitch battle with Tulo. 

This was about as big of a win as you can get on August 14th.  Think about what a loss tonight would have meant.  It would have been another game in the standings, another game tacked onto Toronto's winning streak and another day of reporters asking the Yankees about how scared they are of the Blue Jays.  Now all of that can be put to rest.  I'm not saying Carlos Beltran just shifted the entire momentum of the pennant race with one swing, but I'm not not saying that.