Yankee Game Day Notes

• Geez. Maybe time to visit my eye doctor. I thought that was a deep fly to right field when it left Ellsbury's bat. Turned out to be a little wimpy looping pop up, a few steps behind second base.
• Pitch count, pitch count!! I'm always watching the stinking pitch count. It gets exhausting. The closer it gets to 100 for a Yankee starter, the more angst I feel. All the calculations involved .... "OK if he can get out of this inning in the next couple pitches, maybe he can go two more." Or ..... "If this reliever throws many more pitches, he's going to be shot for the next three days." I used to let the manager worry about all this in the days before they imposed the pitch counts on television screens. 
• Sixth inning, bases loaded and one out. Pitch count at 101. Hopeful for a double play grounder. Got a grand slam instead. Good way to ruin my morning. 40,000-plus Yankee fans in the stadium all agreeing in hindsight that they should have brought in the reliever.
• I was fearful going into this series with Toronto. The Yankees with a four and a half game lead in the standings but Toronto seemingly surging after a couple of big trade deadline changes. It suddenly felt like 1978 and the famed "Boston Massacre" (in reverse for a Yankee fan) where the surging Yankees went into Boston and kicked ass over four games to take control of the division. Well Toronto has won the first two games this weekend and while still two and a half games behind in the standings, it "feels like" they have passed by the Yankees and are in first place. I don't have a good feeling for Sunday.