Thursday, July 12, 2007

Watch Your Back

Apparently, David Ortiz’s torn meniscus isn’t causing him too much trouble these days as he’s sporting a .319 average and beat up on the Blue Jays on Thursday night, as Roy Halladay continues to struggle.

However, its sort of tough to believe that he’s anywhere close to 100%. He has seemingly been suffering from a torn meniscus since mid-2006, so the pain appears to be bearable, but its hard not to worry, especially for Red Sox faithful.

With Curt Schilling and Josh Beckett both injured or on their way back from injuries and Kevin Youkilis, Manny Ramirez and now Ortiz all fighting nagging injuries, the Red Sox lead may start to shrink if either the Yankees or the Blue Jays can put any type of run together.

As an ardent baseball fan for many years now, a late-season Yankee surge is not hard to imagine with pockets as deep as Steinbrenner’s and players as talented as Jeter and A-Rod. Don’t write the boys from the Bronx off quite yet.

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