05/07: Yanks sweep Texas with 8-5 win in finale
Posted by: David
The Yankees made a sweep of it in Arlington on Sunday afternoon by registering an 8-5 victory over the Texas Rangers. The win for Joe Torre is the 1,000th of his Yankee managerial career and now he is only behind Miller Huggins, Casey Stengel and Joe McCarthy for number of career wins as a Yankee manager.
Bernie Williams started off the scoring by hitting an RBI groundout to score the first run. The Yankees added five in the 4th inning highlighted by a three run homer from Hideki Matsui. Kelly Stinnett added a two run single. Bernie Williams also chipped in with two RBI on the day for the Yankees.
Chien Ming-Wang pitched in and out of trouble but left after six innings. Tanyon Sturtze continued to have trouble coming in for the seventh but not being able to retire a single batter. He gave way to Scott Proctor who got the Yankees out of the jam. Texas was able to add another run to make it 8-4 entering the ninth inning.
Even though it was not a save situation Torre didn't want to take any chances and called on Rivera to close the door. He surrendered a leadoff single to Mark DeRosa but he was eliminated on the bases when the next batter, Gerald Laird hit into a double play. Adrian Brown should have been the last out, but Andy Phillips booted his bouncer and he reached first and then eventually second. Michael Young bounced a single up he middle to score an unearned run. Mo got Teixeira to bounce to second to end the game.
With the Red Sox winning the Yankees stay in first place just percentages points ahead of the Red Sox who come to the Bronx starting on Tuesday night for a three game series. Randy Johnson will take the mound for the Yankees against Josh Beckett for Boston.
Bernie Williams started off the scoring by hitting an RBI groundout to score the first run. The Yankees added five in the 4th inning highlighted by a three run homer from Hideki Matsui. Kelly Stinnett added a two run single. Bernie Williams also chipped in with two RBI on the day for the Yankees.
Chien Ming-Wang pitched in and out of trouble but left after six innings. Tanyon Sturtze continued to have trouble coming in for the seventh but not being able to retire a single batter. He gave way to Scott Proctor who got the Yankees out of the jam. Texas was able to add another run to make it 8-4 entering the ninth inning.
Even though it was not a save situation Torre didn't want to take any chances and called on Rivera to close the door. He surrendered a leadoff single to Mark DeRosa but he was eliminated on the bases when the next batter, Gerald Laird hit into a double play. Adrian Brown should have been the last out, but Andy Phillips booted his bouncer and he reached first and then eventually second. Michael Young bounced a single up he middle to score an unearned run. Mo got Teixeira to bounce to second to end the game.
With the Red Sox winning the Yankees stay in first place just percentages points ahead of the Red Sox who come to the Bronx starting on Tuesday night for a three game series. Randy Johnson will take the mound for the Yankees against Josh Beckett for Boston.
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