Happy, sad, then happy again

I am on the "hate" side of the nation's love/hate obsession with the New York Yankees. So after the first inning of yesterday's game, I was in a great mood as the Angels put 4 runs on the board to lead 4-0. However, the Yankees put up a 6-spot in the top of the 7th to take a 6-4 lead. At that point, I was thinking "I may not like the Yankees, but they always seem to get the job done when they need to." But then, the home team rose from the ashes and put 3 runs on the board in the bottom of the 7th to take a 7-6 lead. Jared Weaver pitched a solid 8th inning for the Angels to turn the ball over to close Brian Fuentes in the 9th. Fuentes got the first two outs of the inning, but then some managerial nonsense occured. Angels manager Mike Scoscia had Fuentes intentionally walk A-Rod. Why would you put the winning run on base???? I know he's A-Rod, but he "only" gets on base 40% of the time, with a fraction of those being home runs. Why, why, why? But then it gets even more strange, as Yankee manager Joe Girardi pinch-runs for A-Rod. I won't go into the details and reasons, but there is a post at www.fangraphs.com that explains the situation in detail. I discussed Girardi's managerial moves in previous posts, so it looks like I am not the only one who is thinking that way. So, now the tying run is on first with two outs, Hideki Matsui coaxes a walk and then Robinson Cano is hit by a pitch. This led to a showdown with Nick Swisher. Fuentes got ahead 0-2 then threw three off of the plate and a foul ball. The seventh pitch of the at-bat was popped to the shortstop to end the game. So, now we go back to New York for game 6 on Saturday night.