Well, the bullpen sure made that more interesting than necessary. However, the Yankees were able to hold on to the lead and win the ball game by the score of 8-6. Joba pitched a great 7 innings, he gave up 1 run on 3 hits, and he had 6 strikeouts. Albaladejo came in in the 9th and allowed 2 runs (to this point), he was only able to record 2 outs so Mariano came in for the last out, but first he gave up a three run home run (two runners were courtesy of Albie, so he actually allowed 4 earned runs).Then Rivera got the last out, to end the game. Here is the box score from Yahoo Sports:
Scoring Summary Bot 3rd: Detroit – P. Polanco hit sacrifice fly to center, B. Inge scored Top 4th: NY Yankees – N. Swisher homered to deep left, J. Posada and H. Matsui scored – J. Damon doubled to deep right, M. Cabrera scored, D. Jeter to third – H. Matsui doubled to deep left, J. Damon, D. Jeter and M. Teixeira scored, H. Matsui to third advancing on throw Top 5th: NY Yankees – N. Swisher homered to deep left Bot 9th: Detroit – G. Laird hit sacrifice fly to deep center, M. Cabrera scored, C. Guillen to third – B. Inge ground rule double to deep left, C. Guillen scored – C. Granderson homered to deep right, R. Santiago and B. Inge scored
NY Yankees AB R H RBI BB K LOB Season Avg D. Jeter ss 5 1 0 0 0 1 2 .278 A. Berroa 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 J. Damon lf 4 1 2 1 1 1 0 .297 B. Gardner cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .220 M. Teixeira 1b 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 .197 H. Matsui dh 2 1 1 3 3 0 0 .295 R. Cano 2b 5 0 1 0 0 0 7 .371 J. Posada c 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 .277 N. Swisher rf 5 2 2 4 0 0 2 .307 M. Cabrera cf-lf 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 .311 R. Pena 3b-ss 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 .227 Totals 36 8 9 8 8 2 15
Batting 2B – J Damon (2, R Porcello); H Matsui (5, C Rapada). HR – N Swisher 2 (7, 4th inning off R Porcello 2 on, 1 Out, 5th inning off C Rapada 0 on, 1 Out). RBI – N Swisher 4 (19), J Damon (9), H Matsui 3 (8). 2-out RBI – J Damon, H Matsui 3. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out – R Cano 4. Team LOB – 9.
Fielding DP – 1 (J Posada-R Cano).
NY Yankees IP H R ER BB K HR Season ERA J. Chamberlain (W, 1-0) 7.0 3 1 1 3 6 0 3.13 P. Coke 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4.15 J. Albaladejo 0.2 3 4 4 1 1 0 8.18 M. Rivera 0.1 1 1 1 0 0 1 3.12
Burnett goes tommorow against Anthony Ortega of the Angels to open up a series at home.
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