Baseball Notes

Yesterday for the first time in history, all 15 games in one major league baseball day were won by the home team.

While watching “Baseball Central” on the MLB Network  I cringed when hearing the so called tribute to Mickey Mantle, who died 20 years ago tomorrow. Comments such as “the lack of too much footage caused his legend to grow” and questions for an obscure former big league player, Dave Valle to comment on Mickey Mantle did that rather rapidly.

When it comes to this it is time to say “abandon hope all yee who” (watch this inane stuff)! Additionally, Valle, that striking .237 lifetime hitter, got the facts wrong concerning one of Mantle’s famous home runs.

He seemed stuck on the distance 565 feet which was the supposed distance of a home run Mantle hit in Washington, not as Valle said the home run off the facade at Yankee Stadium, which nearly was the only fair ball hit out of Yankee Stadium.

The New York Yankees have won 27 World Series and 5 since the New York Mets last won one in 1986. They had a 7 game division lead on July 27th and at that point the Mets trailed by 3 games in their divisional race. Now after last night’s results, the Mets with a two and a half game lead, have a bigger division lead than the Yankees, whose lead has shrunk to a measly half game.