A six-run lead should've been safe yesterday, even after only two innings. And even when Tanyon Sturtze was forced into an emergency start. But on George Steinbrenner's birthday - a.k.a. Independence Day - Sturtze and the short-armed Yankee bullpen blew up like an M-80 while allowing eight unanswered runs to Baltimore.
It wasn't until the threat of an ugly loss became real in the eighth that the Bombers rallied, and they finished off a bombastic 13-8 Fourth-of-July victory with a seven-run inning. |
