On the whole, it’s been a good weekend for the Yankees. Whenever you go on the road and take two of three, that’s a pretty decent series regardless of the opponent. The difference between a pretty decent series and a great series, however, is winning that fourth game, and the Yankees can do just that with Nestor freakin’ Cortes on the mound Sunday.
I seem privileged to continually recap Nestor’s starts. The lefty has been the club’s best starter through the season’s first six weeks, and it’s not by accident. His 1.41 ERA is perhaps destined to rise, but a 1.