The New York Yankees will host the
Washington Nationals for a brief two game series. The first game will be a great pitching
matchup between Masahiro Tanaka and Max Scherzer. Tanaka is making his second start since
coming off of the disabled list. He
looked as good as ever last week in Seattle.
His velocity was up and it didn't even look like he had been injured at
all. Maybe the rest helped him and now
it is better weather. We will see how he
looks tonight and going forward as the Yankees hope their ace can stay
healthy. Scherzer despite his 6-4 record
has been great with an under 2 ERA.
The Yankees are a hot team right
now winning six games in a row and they are in first place in the AL East 1 1/2
games ahead of the second place Tampa Bay Rays.
The Nationals after a very rough start had gotten hot but have fallen
off again recently. They at this point
are a huge disappointment. They are in
second place in the NL East behind the New York Mets.
The Nationals have a very exciting
young player who is maybe the best player in baseball right now. Bryce Harper will be making his first
appearance at Yankee Stadium. He leads
the major leagues in homeruns with 19 and also OPS which is on base plus
slugging. He is very exciting and sure
will be salivating at the short right field fence to take aim at for the next
couple of days. This should be a good
series, the Yankees lost two games in Washington last month but they were very
good and exciting games.
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