AJ looked good last night.  And… I think Girardi has a “man crush” on Brett Gardener.  I can tell you it was very nice to see him generate that first run last night.  We haven’t had someone on the team with that kind of run manufacturing ability in a while.  But, Gardener totally hustled that into a triple (so much for Ellsbury being a defensive whiz) and then placed an enormous amount of pressure on the infield with Damon’s bouncer.  Nice job.

Rivera got it up to about 90 on the gun and he looked real good last night.  I’m not concerned about him being able to get up to his usual 93MPH.