The Great Race Swings (and Misses) into May!

 

All right, cats and kibbibles, with the first month of the regular season gone, your New York Yankees are smokin', and so is the Great Strikeout Race!

Here are the standings thus far:

Gallo:          29

Stanton:       27

Donaldson:  23

Judge:          22

Over a full, 162-game season, this projects to:

Gallo:          224

Stanton:      208

Donaldson: 177

Judge:         170

Yes, as of today, Joey Gallo is on a pace to break the single-season record for strikeouts, which is 223!

But as we all know, trouble looms. Joey, Joey, King of the Whiffs is out for the moment with groin "tightness." (As opposed to his usual throat tightness.) 

Will this mean a couple days off—or a month? If someone—Miguel "El Matador" Andujar, Estevan "High Ceiling" Florial—should step in and hit like we've always prayed, will Joey be back at all???

Elsewhere, both Donaldson and Stanton have shown signs of alarming competence of late, so who knows if they can stay on the pace?  But the Big Three—Stanton, Judge, and Gallo—are, combined, still ahead of the over-under of 600 K's on the year.

The excitement is nearly overwhelming!!!