no other division comes close to that. incredibly strong division. yankees aren t back, of course, because of one win. they re still struggling at the plate. but they did put up a bunch of runs last night. something you couldn t say yesterday. red sox were below .500. now, they re at .500. jonathan lemire, i know you wish nothing but ill for these scrappy little kids from the south bronx, but we needed the yankees to win last night, to beat the rays. they did. seriously, for us, it s like rocky balboa. we re going into pittsburgh up against that team, we somehow manage to scrap out a couple wins. they re the apollo creed, of course, of baseball. we somehow laid a couple gloves on them the past couple nights. josh donaldson was in the little league park down the street before he moved to the yankee stadium. of note, the only other ballpark in america where that would have been a home run, except for