New York Yankees 7 — Toronto Blue Jays 1
The Yankees hit four home runs in tonight’s 7-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
On the second pitch of the game, the Yankees got a high and deep…double. The speedy Brett Gardner missed a leadoff home run by a few feet. For the third return of Derek Jeter, the Yankees captain got a single to center field that easily scored Gardner. The fun of solid hitting took a quick break.
Robinson Cano would take a inside pitch off the left hand and it immediately looked bad.
Cano would stay in to see Alfonso Soriano jump on a high fastball and deposit it over the left field wall. The three-run home run by Soriano was his 27th of the season and it put the Yankees ahead by four. Robinson Cano would not make it back out for the bottom half of the first inning and Eduardo Nunez took over at second. He would be later diagnosed with a left hand contusion and is considered day-to-day, to the relief of many Yankees fans as well as the team.
Alfonso Soriano would do that home run thing one more time. This time it led off the third inning, just clearing the left field wall. His second home run of the game would be a milestone. The solo home run was his 400th career home run. The Yankees were ahead by five and Andy Pettitte had his A game.
Andy would need some self-defense and some help from the rest of his team to cruise through seven scoreless. In the first inning, Edwin Encarnacion would smash a line drive right back at the veteran lefty and he would show the reflexes are still sharp, snatching the ball to avoid a catastrophic injury. Then in the fifth inning, with one out, right fielder Moises Sierra hit a double. On Ryan Goins single to center field, Brett Gardner would make a throw to the plate for a play at home and Chris Stewart would make the out to preserve the shutout.
In seven innings, Andy Pettitte allowed five hits with no runs and two walks while striking out three.
Mark Reynolds would open the sixth inning with a home run and A-Rod delivered an “A-Bomb” with a home run of his own in the seventh inning.
Adam Warren would take over in the eighth inning and he would lose the shutout but during a ground ball single to center field, an unusual event occurred. The single was a deflection off the glove of Derek Jeter and it would trickle into center field for Brett Gardner to field. While he was fielding the ball, Nunez would go to cover second base in case Jose Reyes made a break for it but took a bad step and tweaked his knee. The emergency second baseman crumbled to the ground in pain. He stayed in for the remainder of the inning and singled in the ninth inning too.
He would be pinch run for though with Lyle Overbay. That didn’t play a factor in the inning but Mark Reynolds, the first baseman, would play second base for the last inning of the game and of course, the ball will find a way to find you. With one on and one away, a ground ball to Alex Rodriguez would be the game-ending around-the-horn double play. Mark Reynolds would cleanly field the transition throw and complete the double play to end a game of highs and lows.
Win – Andy Pettitte (10-9)
Loss – J.A. Happ (3-4)
Notables
Yankees
*Alfonso Soriano – 2 for 5, 2 R, 2 HR (28; 3-Run & Solo) in the 1st & 3rd, 4 RBI (84)
*Alex Rodriguez – 2 for 4, R, BB, Solo Home Run (4) in the 7th, RBI (8)
Blue Jays
*Kevin Pillar – 1 for 3, 2B, RBI (6)
*Ryan Goins – 2 for 3, R
Current Yankees Record: 70-62
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