Game 70 - Toronto Bluejays at New York Yankees

April 8 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY
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I had a This Is Terrible, What Do We Do? recap all set to go.

I was going to ask the $7 question: who on earth is Devon Travis? and talk about how the Yankees were the worst 0-2 team since the last 0-2 Yankees team (last season). But sometimes a pair of Toronto Bluejays relievers tuck you in, give you a warm glass of milk and read you a bedtime story.

Tonight's story was titled The Rally That Went A Combined 237 Feet.

With the Yankees down 3-1, Chris Young pinch-hit for Didi Gregorius leading off the eighth and blooped a ball down the right-field line that fell harmlessly for a gift double. Jacoby Ellsbury reached base for the fourth time, ripping a single up the middle. That word ripping is important because it was truly the only ball in the inning that if you weren't able to see could even remotely be described as "possibly coming off a wooden bat swung by a living human". Aaron Loup's evening was complete after he hit Brett Gardner in the hand with a pitch to load the bases.

Brett Cecil was next to give the Yankees things they probably didn't deserve, but would gladly accept, and with Carlos Beltran up, he tossed a wild pitch to make it a 3-2 game.

Beltran struck out and after an intentional walk (more free base-runners: thanks, Toronto Bluejays!) loaded the bases, Brian McCann was hit in the back with a pitch. 3-3. All of a sudden the Yankees were one Chase Headley come backer off Cecil's glove that trickles past the shortstop and into shallow left-center field away from taking the lead.

Headley's "hit" brought home Gardner and after a dazzling New York debut for Andrew Miller in the ninth, the Yankees evened their record at 1-1.

Final thoughts

Here are things that you don't want if you're a Major League Baseball team in 2015:

1. Stephen Drew batting with the tying run at second base and two outs in the bottom of the seventh.

2. Stephen Drew batting.