This is baseball my friend, powerhouse pitchers and teams lay stinkers all the time. Obviously we want to catch the Yankees to avoid a situation like that and increase our odds of going further into the playoffs by playing a full series. I like Buehrle behind Price, he's a solid pitcher and has big game experience and believe it or not I'm even ok with Dickey out there starting game 3, he's a different and better pitcher later on in the year (as his statistics have shown).
At this point it's Trout and the Angels we'd be taking on, the Astros might very well be taking that division.