After being on the receiving end of Toronto home run after home run for a good portion of the 10 games the two teams had played thus far, the Yankees finally flexed a little muscle of their own, pumping five home runs on their way to an 11-5 victory over the Blue Jays.
Dustin Moseley was much better against Toronto this time around, throwing six innings and only giving up two runs (and no extra-base hits!) to a very dangerous Blue Jay lineup. Heck, Jose Bautista didn’t even hit any Jose Bautistas! Chad Gaudin gave up three runs of his own in two innings, but he could afford to given that the Yankees had jumped out to an 11-2 lead. And Kerry Wood continued to look very good, pitching a 1-2-3 ninth with two strikeouts.
The Yankees unloaded on Mark Rzepczynski for six runs and Brian Tallet for five, and it felt great to finally give the Jays a taste of their own medicine. Mark Teixeira went deep (and had three more hits), Marcus Thames hit a two-run bomb (not to mention two additional hits and a walk), Jorge Posada and Derek Jeter hit solo shots and Curtis Granderson pumped a three-run blast.
Phil Hughes and Brett Cecil square off in the rubber match tonight, and it’d be phenomenal to see the Yankees pick up their third straight series win and knock the pesky Blue Jays down a few more notches.
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