The New York Yankees Finally Get The Upper Hand In A Home Stand This Season

  While the New York Yankees are only in the second month of baseball, it is the first time they can go into a scheduled Monday off day with an upbeat feeling as team. After a terrible start to the season where they were having trouble winning away games and home game, they head into today (May 10,2021) with a much needed confident booster from their moment recent home stand.

  The Bronx baseball team managed to put together a 7-2 home stand that saw some sparkling defense efforts and also some much improved starting pitching beyond Gerrit Cole. Also, beyond the home run ball, the Yankee fan base saw their team put the ball in play more.

  Let's briefly look at how the Yanks ended their latest game(s).

  With the Yanks fully locked in a pitchers' duel with the Nationals for the second consecutive game at Yankees, each swing of the bat was more important than the last on Sunday. None, however, mattered more than Giancarlo Stanton’s at-bat in the bottom of the ninth.

  After leadoff walks drawn by Tyler Wade and pinch-hitter Aaron Judge, then a DJ LeMahieu groundout to put runners on the corners, Stanton hit a sharp grounder through the left side of the infield, delivering a 3-2 walk-off win in the series finale on Sunday at the stadium.

  Since the season has gotten underway, Stanton has been launching baseballs to all parts of the baseball field for homers, doubles, and singles. He was on a hot 10-plus game stretch that saw him demolish almost every pitch he connected his bat with.  Recently though, the slugger has not managed to get a hit all series long, but his breakthrough could not have come at a more timely moment for the Yankees -- as he won in walk-off fashion in back-to-back games.

  The question now becomes, "Can Stanton get another hitting streak going with the Yankees go on another road trip?"

  Stanton said this after the team's latest victory:

  "These are great games to feed off, battles back and forth.....Any way you can squeeze out a win and build that momentum [matters]. When you win games that are down to the wire, it’s big. It’s big for everybody. The way you find wins and the way you scrape them out, it pays off.”

  Stanton was right, because it did pay off, as the team finished their home stand with the previously mention 7-2 record -- having won all three series against the Tigers, Astros and Nats. With that record, it makes  them undefeated in their past six series (4-0-2) after losing four of their first five of the season.

  Can Aaron Boone and the Yanks continue on their newly found winning path, following today's off day, when they venture out on another road trip that will start with a three game series against the Tampa Bay Rays ?