Jane Heller

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author

The Yankees Need To Go Here

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Seriously, the pitching staff especially needs to take a day and go to a spa. Not tomorrow, since there’s another round of torture against the Red Sox, but Sunday before the ESPN game. Girardi always gives his players a surprise “play date” during spring training, but I think he should do it now before they all collapse.

Tonight’s loss was sad. The offense fought back after Kuroda’s rocky start only to have Claiborne blow it. The kid was good early in the season but has been awful lately, so this one was pretty predictable. At one point I said to Michael, “I’d rather see Joba right now.” My husband looked at me as if I had six heads, but how much worse could things get?

And on a day when our Wild Card competitors won – a real kick in the teeth for any playoff hopes. And let’s face it. The Red Sox own the Yankees this year.

 

Multi-tasking

What a weird night of TV watching.

I started out with the game, cheering Vernon Wells for getting the Yanks on the board with that homer. I saw Phelps, our starter and #8 batter (Girardi is really being creative) give the lead back but otherwise pitch shutout baseball against the Rockies. Then I couldn’t resist switching to news updates about the three Cleveland women. My God, what a nightmare. And then, because it was inescapable, I sat through analysis of the Jodi Arias verdict and tried to imagine what possessed all those people in Phoenix to follow the trial for so many months.

Eventually, I made my way back to the game with the score still tied at 2-2 – just in time to see Boesch hustle to first allowing Wells to score the go-ahead run and then Wells fill in at third (more Girardi creativity) and handle his one chance effortlessly. Strange win, but a good win and, of course, another save for Mo.

Robertson did not look ready to be back, judging by his wildness, but Preston Clairborne has now been fabulous in two games. If only he could hit and play third.

 

Absolutely Nothing

The Yankees did zero against the A’s pitcher in tonight’s series opener, and I have zero to say about it.

Well, okay. I’ll complain a little about CC’s pitch count and how decimated the team is because of injuries. Oh, and I’ll mention that the Yankees called up a reliever yesterday named Preston Claiborne.

I started laughing when I heard his name. Doesn’t it sound like the name of a trust fund baby and shouldn’t it have roman numerals after it, like Preston Clairborne III? I wonder if he talks like the Thurston Howell character on “Gillian’s Island.”

P.S. Don’t forget that Sunday is the last day to submit an entry to win the Yankees Then & Now book if you haven’t already entered…..

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Jane Heller is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her fourteen breezy, witty novels of romantic comedy and suspense are now entertaining millions of readers around the world, along with her two books of nonfiction.