There are so many things going right for the Yankees, in what has been a dream season for them so far, even more of one than the Mets are having, that you lose count sometimes. Which is the way it generally goes with dream seasons. Even when the Yankees temporarily lose Aroldis Chapman they replace him with someone — Clay Holmes — who looks like more of a closer than Chapman did before he got hurt.
Nestor Cortes hasn’t just been the surprise of the Yankee pitching staff, he has been the surprise of anybody’s pitching staff, with his 5-1 record and his 1.