Yanks use old play book

The Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers on Saturday deploying an offensive style that was straight from the Joe Torre playbook. Torre's teams are known for working the pitchers and aggressively running the bases. The 2008 Girardi squad has featured a lethargic offense, they entered today's game 10Th in the league in walks and aren't wearing out pitchers. The new Joe had the team running extensively in spring training but it hasn't carried over to the regular season.

The Yanks went old school and it worked producing a 5-2 victory. They worked five walks to go with nine hits and put a crooked number on the board. Aggression payed on the bases as the hit and run featuring Jeter motoring from first as Abreu sliced a double to left produced a run. Working pitchers, producing base runners and aggressively attacking works, why mess with success?

Notes:

• Rasner turns in his second consecutive productive performance: 6 IP/2 runs/1walk/4 hits, after all the hype, an under the radar guy looks like a solid number four starter.
• Baseball is a game of failure, but you'd never prove it by the Great Rivera. He makes domination look easy. "Rivera has lived on hitters hands for years."--Karros. Mariano continues to spoil us.

Editors Note: Will be on vacation in Vegas this week, will post regularly, but comment response may be slow.