Hang Five!

Kind of a quirky thing happened yesterday in the American League games when every single tilt featured at least one of the teams scoring 5 runs. Some of those were winners and some of those were losers. But.. each and every game had a team scoring 5. Kinda funky huh. Imagine if that would have happened on Cinco de Mayo ; )

Kudos to Andre Ethier who somehow shook off his disappointment of losing the hit streak on Saturday by blasting a Home Run in the LA Dodgers win over the Mets. His two hits helped him maintain an incredibly lofty .371 batting average, good for third in the League. I know Andre deflects any personal accomplishments in favor of a team win, but at some point ya gotta acccept your props.

Ok, back to the number 5. How about the Pirates getting some late fireworks to knock off Houston 5-4. Trailing 4-2 in the bottom half of the 8th inning it was up to Ryan Doumit with a couple of ducks on the pond. A hit would have gotten them a touch closer but Ryan went one better and simply pounded the ball over the wall for a 3 run bomb. All Houston could do was look up at that darn 5 on the board.

Oh Captain, My Captain! Anybody ever see the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets' Society when the students stand on their desks in honor of "the Captain"? Well, the Yankees were standing on the top step of the dugout in Arlington and they may as well have been chanting "Oh Captain, My Captain" to Derek Jeter. All he did is smoke the ball his first four times at the plate to erase a 4-0 Texas lead. The Clipper Captain homered twice and drove in 3 as the Yankees bombed Texas with '5' Home Runs! Thats weird huh?

Gabby Sanchez had a terrific game yesterday as the Marlins put a rompin on tthe Nats 8-0. The Fish are just two games behind the Phightins in the NL East and part of the reason is guys like Sanchez picking up the massive slack in the line left by their multi billion dollar flop - Hanley Ramirez. Gabby powered out a huge Home Run and knocked in 3 Ribs with his 4 for 4 day at the dish. Just for the heck of it, he scored 3 times as well. Nice Gabby.. but, ya gotta have some kinda 5 to take down the YH on a Big 5 kinda day like Mother's Day. Gimme 5 dude!

So, let's hand it to the White Sox hitter that sparked a rally in the 10th inning of a 2-2 tie. Yup, Paul Konerko notched his '5th' hit of the day and started a 3 run rally that ultimately hung up the last 5 of the day in the quirky Mother's Day AL tilts. I know, his 5 hits didn't really accomplish much all day when it comes to production.. except that last hit did carry with it the eventual winning run. I only wish Paul was wearing number 5 on his back ; )