Yanks comeback for a second straight day, beat O's 8-6

It looked like this game was going to be over quickly in the top of the second.  Pineda looked shot.  Four runs on a walk, a single, a 3-run homer, a hit-by-pitch and a bunt single all before recording an out.  He had nothing on his slider.  His body language was awful.  He looked so visibly agitated I was just sitting there waiting for the entire thing to fall apart.  Had it not been for a great play by Didi to save a run and a line drive finding Headley's glove to end the inning it probably would have.

Then, with the game still within reach at 4-1, Big Mike regrouped.  As he went on to throw four scoreless frames the rest of the way, the Yanks mounted a comeback for the second straight day.  An RBI double by Chris Young in the 3rd.  A solo shot by A-Rod in the fifth.  And then the kids struck.  Go ahead home runs in the fifth and seventh by John Ryan Murphy and Greg Bird respectively.  Murphy with a 2-run shot the opposite way to put them up 5-4 before Machado tied it in the 7th.  Then a three-run bomb to right-center by Greg Bird to put the Yanks up for good.

I don't care much for talking about the future when there are meaningful games being played right now during this season.  That's more of a discussion Met fans like to have.  But for a team that got nothing but criticism for being too old and having no future, it's a good feeling to see so many young guys contributing to a big win.  For all of the other teams in baseball who's farm systems have drawn critical acclaim for being loaded with budding MLB stars, the future of the Yankees all of the sudden doesn't look so bleak.

And as Andrew Miller slammed the door on the Orioles this afternoon our old pals in Boston took care of the Blue Jays and sent the Yankees and Toronto once again into a tie in the loss column atop the American League East.  With two games to go before the big four-game showdown in the Bronx, the Yanks have done everything they had to do to so far to stay within striking distance and give themselves an opportunity to take back the division this weekend.