Yankees Face the Toughest Battle for Playoff Spot - August 13, 2007 - The New York Sun

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N.Y. Sun: Marchman: Yankees Face the Toughest Battle for Playoff Spot
Published 8/13/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
N.Y. Sun: Marchman: Yankees Face the Toughest Battle for Playoff Spot Unless they face that Jhonny (I Shrunk in a Big Spot) Peralta led team again. This disparity means that, speaking roughly, the Yankees project to play .572 ball over the rest of the season, while the Indians project to play .549 ball. Combine that with their actual records to this point, and the Yankees projected record comes out at 91–71, while the Tribe s is 90–72. Those April losses counted. Unhappily for Yankees partisans, the same exercise shows the Red Sox finishing with a 100–62 record. More happily, it shows the Detroit Tigers ending the year at 88–74, with the California Angels grabbing the West title with a 92–70 record, and the Mariners ending up at 87–75. That would put the Yankees, Indians, Red Sox, and Angels in the playoffs, which certainly sounds reasonable enough. These aren t, though, large margins, and a bad week could well knock the Yankees out of t ...

August 13th Yankeeland Pulse Check
Published 8/13/2007 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
... But, Tim Marchman states the case that this race will be a nail-biter. However, in Boston, Curt Schilling is thinking that the Red Sox are in the need for some answers - via ...

Walk it off, buddy, just walk it off
Published 8/15/2007 by Dan Tobin at Bugs & Cranks
... , I didn’t want to turn on the TV because there’s no such thing as a good game against the Devil Rays. Those are the games we’re supposed to win, as pointed out even by the New York Sun (the same paper pining for a ...

Baseball Today: Wednesday, August 15
Published 8/15/2007 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... TOUGH ROAD AHEAD: The New York Sun's Tim Marchman says the Yankees ''have the toughest schedule [of all the playoff contenders] over the rest of the season . . . Every other team shooting for a playoff spot has it easier than the Yankees will.'' ...