There's Some Hope for the Yanks Finally

 

 

        Well, finally the Yankees are winning games again after a long stretch where wins were rare to come by. The Yanks have won their last 3 in a row all by a score of 4-2 coincidently and 2 of them against arguably 2 top 10 pitchers in the league. Now after a long homestand, they are greeted with a long road trip.

        The Yanks head out to Oakland, then Anaheim, and then Tampa to conclude the upcoming road trip. 2/3 teams on the trip have had terrible seasons and the Yanks need to pickup these easy wins against their outmatched opponents. The A's have been in a rebuild since this offseason and the Angels have not been good since the Yankees last saw them in June. 7 out of the 10 games on the trip are against LA and Oakland and I expect them to pick up 6-7 wins against the two struggling ball clubs.

        These are games where the Yanks need to capitalize and kind of expand the division lead a little more even though it is still a pretty large lead to say the least. Tampa, Toronto, and now Baltimore are not going away anytime soon and the Yanks need to keep fending them off like they had been earlier. 

        These last three games should be huge confidence boosters for a team that had previously gone 12-25 in their previous 37 games. Andrew Benintendi is finally starting to become the guy we all knew he was on Boston and when they traded for him from Kansas City. Frankie Montas put together a great start last night against the Mets, and even with the minuscule bullpen, they have still found ways to excel in tough situations.

        Another plus is that Stanton will be rejoining the team tomorrow in Oakland to get another bat in the lineup. The main reason why Aaron Judge has been struggling is because of the rest of the lineup not being imposing enough. If pitchers were threatened by other bats in the lineup then they would give good pitches to hit to Aaron Judge, but with the offense and how it has been, they have not been threatened at all. They're pitching down and away to Judge and are succeeding doing so. 

        So Stanton back, relatively easy schedule coming up, confidence boosting wins, so the only way for the Yanks from this point on is up. It's all laid out for them to capitalize on, so they have to take advantage and cruise their way into October.