Thursday, May 06, 2010

 

The core 8 of today's Yankees-Lupica

This was before Andy Pettitte, old, with a history of elbow problems, would leave a winning game against the Orioles because of, well, an elbow problem. This was at

He is the best of them all and the greatest of them all

in the year when he wants to win his sixth World Series a few weeks before he turns 41. And he had been set down for a couple of days this week with a sore hip.

And then they nearly did as the Orioles scored two in the 8th and two in the 9th and turned a blow-out snoozer of an afternoon game into 7-5.

So they didn't need the great Rivera on Wednesday afternoon the way they will most likely need him at Fenway this weekend, and across the summer and into the fall.

We hear more than ever about the Core Four - Mo, Pettitte, Posada, Jeter - those guys celebrated in story and probably song eventually. But the core of this Yankee team is these eight guys, no particular order:

"Mariano Rivera warns 'nobody gets to stay young forever' as Yankees continue showing signs of age," Mike Lupica, Thursday online column, NY Daily News, 5/6/10

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