On a night AJ Burnett did not have his best stuff, the Yankees overcame an early 3-1 deficit and with the game tied late, rallied for 3 go ahead runs in the 8th for a 7-4 victory. It looked like things were going to be status quo against the Angels early, a team the Yankees have historically struggled against. Chone Figgins, another notorious Yankee killer, led the game off with a triple and promptly scored on a single. The Yanks responded with a quick run of their own when there was a Mark Teixeira sighting last night. He hit a double and was knocked in by hot-hitting Hideki Matsui.
Burnett gave up 2 more runs in the top of the second with one of the runs coming on Mike Napoli’s HR. The Yankees rallied back and took a 4-3 lead in the fourth, when a rarely seen, almost extinct, 2-out, RBI single was hit by Derek Jeter. Burnett promptly coughed up the lead in the top of the 5th, till the Yanks big rally in the 8th.
The miracles didn’t stop with the rare 2-out RBI hit, either. What was thought to be the impossible, Melky Cabrera, the man who led the team with the lowest percentage of getting the runner in from third with less than 2 outs, hit an RBI single off of Justin Speier. Ramiro Pena followed with a 2 run double, knocking in his first RBIs of his career. Congratulations, kid, and good timing.
Mariano Rivera, pitiful in his last 2 appearances, slammed the door with 2 Ks in the 9th after giving up a leadoff single.
Yankee Bomber Doghouse: Just one tonight - Cano continues to struggle miserably with runners in scoring position. Kudos to Posada, who threw out 2 runners, including the Chone. And I pronounce it the way it looks and sometimes I’ll throw in a long “e” at the end, as in “Choney”. I still don’t know how you get “Sean” from that spelling.
Yankees Record: 12-10
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