What a game!

Yes! The Blue Jackets win tonight, 4-0, behind the excellent goalkeeping of.... .what?

(You don't even know the goalie's name, do you? -ed)

Wow. What a game tonight. That's a game I could NEVER imagine the Tribe of 1995-2001 winning. A 2-1 pitcher's duel.

How many chances did we have? How many breaks went the Yanks' way (like Peralta's shot in the 6th, or Hafner's liner in the 8th - right at Doug M)? Well, wait.... that didn't come out right. Not saying that the Yanks were lucky or anything....

but we tried to give that game away any way possible. From baserunning mistakes to overeager at-bats (see Cabrera, Asdrubal) to the complete opposite of clutch hitting, we had no business winning that game.

But we did. And we owe it to Fausto.

There were people in this lineup that looked completely overmatched tonight in the spotlight - Cabrera, Gutierrez, even Peralta (especailly when he took his time on the Abreu play in the 11th). But Lofton, Sizemore and finally Pronk carried us through.

Perez, as usual, was golden. An a well-needed day off means Perez - who pitched 2 innings today and yesterday - may be ok to go on Sunday. And we still have Betancourt.

I would not mind if we can win this series without seeing Borowski. Please?

Still, a long way to go. Westbrook won't have a stellar outing, but I predict a 5 2/3, 4 ER outing. Will the offense hit vs. Roger to have Westbrook's outing be sufficient? Who knows?

The key, of course, is to make Roger work so that Torre has to pull him in the 5th or 6th. Then we strike. I don't see us getting to Joba in Yankee Staidum, and Mariano was his old self tonight.

The sooner we win the third game, the better. Let's not give them any more chances to get off the mat. We need to win Sunday.