Great article on the game today by Tyler Kepner. He seems to be getting his act together.
As Kepner said, there are a lot of positives to take from the game. Name the player, and he probably played well. Cano, Tex, Matsui, Gardner, Jeter, and Burnett all had great games (though Johnny Damon has cooled off).
But the biggest news was Wang, who had his best performance of the season, pitching the eighth and ninth and mowing down all 6 batters he faced, two on strikeouts. There were two reasonably hard hit balls, but the others were the soft groundouts and sorry wiffs on nasty sinkers that we know are coming when Wang is on the mound. Most importantly, his performance brought not just relief for the starter, but also a sigh of relief. Wang seems to be back, and with a few more outings like this he will have proved it to the coaches, and created an interesting dilemma for who should be in the rotation.
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