Yawn...Yankees win

It's become commonplace, these Yankees winning again. Tonight it was a 12-3 takedown of the Texas Rangers (oh, yes, the team with the best record in the American League).

And now the Yankees have the best record in the American League: 31-21.

They're 10 games over .500; last season they weren't 10 games over .500 until 100 games into the season.

Leading the way is none other than stalwart Derek Jeter, who has shaken the April rust off to sprint up the batting charts. Numbah 2 had three hits tonight and now leads the team with a .319 batting average. He also has 10 stolen bases (team-leading), 25 RBI, and seven home runs (he had 11 all of last year). Sure, his stats may not be as gaudy as, say Mark Teixeira's (44 RBI, 16 home runs), but Jeter's been getting on base plenty from the leadoff hole, and he's led the latest Yankees tear. The shortstop is batting .500 over the last seven games.

Enough with Jeter, though. Tonight, everybody got involved. Jorge Posada, who seemed content that the Yankees had broken the errorless streak (he flubbed a throw in the fourth inning to end it) came through for a three-run homer, and Hideki Matsui added a three-run blast of his own. Robinson Cano added two hits, and a whole pile of other Bombers contributed runs, single hits and RBI.

New York left eight runners on base (after stranding nine last night), yet they still won by nine runs. Something's going right here.

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