What is the Boston globe sports reporting about the yankees?
Yankee Stadium was still rocking over Johnny Damon’s tying home run in the eighth inning off fireballing reliever Daniel Bard when Mark Teixeira stepped in and sent the faithful over the edge by taking the Red Sox rookie deep to right to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead and effectively a four-game sweep. Teixeira’s curtain call was the third of the evening. The third time the Yankees had celebrated a blow that left the Sox deflated, even as they continue to put on the same brave front they’ve worn for the last week. But the four-game sweep brought back stinging memories of the five-game debacle of 2006. Bard’s two blown saves have bookended the Red Sox’ current six-game skid that has left them 6 1/2 games back in the American League East and tied with the Rangers for the wild card after last night’s 5-2 loss. As David Ortiz asked himself and a crowd of reporters, “It can’t get no worse, right?’’ “We’re going to try,’’ Ortiz said. “We’re going to keep on playing. Nothing we can do but play.’
In the Boston Globe, Chad Finn provides 10 reasons to agree with that assessment. There’s no right place to hold a press conference addressing allegations … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNEHtiJ_eJbrqm4MpWLB__9dJX8svw&cid=1290626960&ei=1UuASoCpHJDq8gS3t4XBAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.
