subject: Yankees Exceed The Twins For The Of 2-0 Series Lead [print this page] The reigning world champion Yankees have overcome a series ahead of Minnesota for the eighth successive time in the game post-season on their way to grab a 2-0 lead in the command of their best five AL Division Berkman Series.
Lance helped New York moves to a deficit -0 1 at the beginning with a home run fifth inning, then doubled a second scoring twice in a two-point seventh end to equal 2 -2 and Andy Pettitte helped notch his 19th postseason win.
The Yankees return to New York for a potential tire series Saturday against the Twins, who have lost their last 11 playoff games dating game described 2004.Before Twins manager Ron Gardenhire two games as "almost a kind of do-or-die thing "for his club.
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Now there is no" almost "about it." We were confident we could do, "said center fielder Curtis Granderson of the Yankees, who contributed three hits, scored one point and led to another. "I am excited to a 2-0 lead, but we know we must keep as hungry as we were."
Orlando Hudson dispose of the Yankees lead to 2-1 when he threw a curve ball of Pettitte over the left field fence to tie the game and the Yankees in the sixth inning.The Berkman has a second chance the next inning and never looked back. with a first man, Twins starter Carl Pavano thought Berkman pulled a pitch into a corner inside, but the judge called ball.
Berkman sent to the following during the rise of the central defender's head and a double scoring Jorge Posada, and Gardenhire taken out of the bark canoe is the judge and gain removal. The captain Derek Jeter put on a soft single to right scoring Berkman for a 4-2 lead, but also chased Pavano from the former Yankee game.
Bloop RBI single to right final score Granderson ninth, and closer Mariano Rivera recorded the final three outs for his forty-first post-season record.Pettitte, who won all three of New York's playoff-clinching games in last year's run to the World Series title, came up big once again as he and two relievers combined on a six-hitter.The left-hander praised Berkman, his former team mate on the Houston Astros, who after coming to New York in a mid-season deal had hit only one home run with nine RBIs in 37 games.
Yankees Exceed The Twins For The Of 2-0 Series Lead
