WHY I'LL TAKE A YANKEE BLOWOUT ANY DAY

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I always love a blowout, there's no stress and it shows a fan that all the parts are working correctly, well, not totally tonight, but mostly. Now, you can blame the heat if you want, but the Yankees offense was incredible, yet Phil Hughes wasn't. One thing you have to know about Hughes is, he doesn't make excuses and I hope he doesn't tonight because if your a major league ballplayer, it doesn't matter if it's too cold or too hot, you have a job to do and he just didn't do it tonight. Phil Hughes pitched 4.1 innings, he gave up 9 hits and 7 runs tonight. Girardi calls Hughes appearance tonight a "blip", meaning, it's just a bad night and he'll be back next time out. I say I worry aa bit about King Hughes. I don't know if this guy is right yet. It concerns me. He didn't get the win, Hector Noesi did. Noesi did a good job coming in, he managed to go 3.2 innings, allowed 4 hits and 0 runs. Bottom line, if the Yankees didn't score 17 runs and scored say, 5 runs, all of Yankeeland would be hammering young Hughes right now. Phil dodged a bullet, next time it's a must win.

Now let's get to what was amazing tonight, the Yankee bats. A few beautiful highlights:
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Nick Swisher had 3 hits tonight, and it all started with a 3 run homer that eventually led to the Yankees batting around the order and scored 9 runs. Tonight Swisher had 5 RBI's. A great night for Swish.

Mark Teixeira looked like he was never in a slump with that ourstanding and long awaited Grand Slam. It was a nice shot to right field and man oh man did he need that.
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Derek Jeter knocked in 3 runs. I'd say perhaps, just perhaps, Derek Jeter is happy to be back in the 2 hole, after all, Jeet used to always be in the 2 hole, so this is nothing new. I think the combination of Gardy leading off and Jeter batting second can be a recipe for success. Can you imagine if we did this starting in the beginning of the season?
The sweetest highlight for me was seeing Brandon Laird play, and not only get his first hit, but get his first major league RBI as well. Congrats Brandon, welcome to New York.

Final Score: Yankees 17 - Athletics 7

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