Yanks Take Series from Detroit

The Good

There was the nine run sixth for one. As a team, the Yankees hit for the cycle (I didn't know you could do this as a team effort) and Cano was just a triple shy of one himself. Hughes didn't go long, but pitched an effective five innings, allowing only two runs.

The Bad

Mitre gave up three runs in three innings. That's almost a run an inning. Unacceptable.

The Ugly

Today's game was a day game, which I didn't find out until the game was already in the ninth inning. No one in the Yankees organization even bothered to call me about the game time. This really is a much less classy operation now that the Boss is gone. You'll pay for this Yankees front office!

Doncha Know?

Cano had the only home run for the Yankees, a nine run shot in the sixth. At least that's how the official score keeper called it after Cano paid him a "friendly" visit. I'm not putting friendly in quotation marks. Cano made the quotation marks gesture when he explained the nature of his visit to the official scorer's booth to the press corp.

Posada 13hr = $26
Granderson 13hr = $26
Cano 24hr = $48
Swisher 22hr = $44
Jeter 9hr = $18
Johnson 2hr = $4
Rodriguez 21hr = $42
Teixeira 27hr = $54
Thames 4hr = $8
Gardner 5hr = $10
Winn 1hr = $2
Miranda 3hr = $6
Curtis 1hr = $1
Kearns 1hr = $1
Total = $292