Afternoon Baseball

So pessimistic, I know. But the rainout is never a bad thing when there's injuries abounding.
In this case, Andy Pettitte facing the Red Sox on Friday is a good thing, and keeping Phillip Hughes on track is also good.

Alex Rodriguez, of course, needs but one home run in the last week of the month to break Albert Pujols' April record. The record is diminished slightly by the many decades of teams not playing the full month, but it's still impressive. Considering other top marks, such as Rudy York's 17-homer barrage of August 1938 (stealing signs) and Sammy Sosa's 20 HR June (steroids, something else?) are suspicious at best, 14 HR is quite the total.
It's not the best Yankee month, however. I'm doing this off the top of my head, but Babe Ruth had 17 HR in September 1927, rocketing from 43 to 60 (and for decades throwing off projections of would-be record-breakers).
Sorry for no links. I'm technically on holiday, but keeping up best I can.

On a sad note, a girl with a brain tumor who was featured on ESPN's "My Wish" has died. Her episode was one of the few I saw, and one where you knew she probably wouldn't make it, but if anyone was, it would be a person such as her.

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