05/13: Yanks Knock Around Jays, Win 8–2
Posted by: Seamus
I think I'm going to put the over-under at September 1 for the next time we'll see Brett Gardner pick up 7 total bases in a game. But he was on tonight, as well as most of the Yankee lineup, and the Yankees cruised to an 8–2 victory in Toronto to pull them back to within 5.5 games of the Blue Jays in the A.L. East.
The Yankees blew the game open with five runs in the 2nd. Brett Gardner put the Yankees ahead 2–1 with his first major league home run, a ball that just cleared the wall a few feet left of the right field foul pole. Ramiro Pena and Johnny Damon both hit almost identical triples in the right-center field gap (Damon's drove in a run), and Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano added RBI hits in the inning, as well. A sac fly for Teixeira in the 4th, an RBI triple for Gardner in the 5th (I wonder when the last time the Yankees had 3 triples in a game was) and an RBI groundout by Francisco Cervelli, also in the 5th rounded out the offense's eight-run effort for the evening.
Andy Pettitte pitched 6 respectable innings, allowing just 2 runs on 5 hits as he picked up his third win of the season. The bullpen (Aceves and Albaladejo) combined for three scorless innings, although Jonathan Albaladejo did have to work himself out of some trouble in the ninth.
Good to see the lineup as a whole come alive for once. I'd imagine the baseballs had to look like basketballs to these guys after having to face Roy Halladay the night before. The Yankees will try to take the final game of this series tomorrow night at 7:07 ET and will send CC Sabathia to the mound to face Brian Tallet.
Recap records: Patrick: 9–5, Seamus: 6–8, Andrew: 1–4
The Yankees blew the game open with five runs in the 2nd. Brett Gardner put the Yankees ahead 2–1 with his first major league home run, a ball that just cleared the wall a few feet left of the right field foul pole. Ramiro Pena and Johnny Damon both hit almost identical triples in the right-center field gap (Damon's drove in a run), and Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano added RBI hits in the inning, as well. A sac fly for Teixeira in the 4th, an RBI triple for Gardner in the 5th (I wonder when the last time the Yankees had 3 triples in a game was) and an RBI groundout by Francisco Cervelli, also in the 5th rounded out the offense's eight-run effort for the evening.
Andy Pettitte pitched 6 respectable innings, allowing just 2 runs on 5 hits as he picked up his third win of the season. The bullpen (Aceves and Albaladejo) combined for three scorless innings, although Jonathan Albaladejo did have to work himself out of some trouble in the ninth.
Good to see the lineup as a whole come alive for once. I'd imagine the baseballs had to look like basketballs to these guys after having to face Roy Halladay the night before. The Yankees will try to take the final game of this series tomorrow night at 7:07 ET and will send CC Sabathia to the mound to face Brian Tallet.
Recap records: Patrick: 9–5, Seamus: 6–8, Andrew: 1–4
