Marathon Men!! Yankees Win 11-10 in 4th Straight Extra Inning Game
BRONX- Things were looking down in the Bronx after the Yankees went on a 5-game losing streak. Especially after the 5th loss came in the 12th inning against the lowly Cleveland Indians.
But the team snapped out of it. They went on to beat the Indians 3-2 and 5-4 in 11 innings to even their 4 game series at 2-2. Then they came out and beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-10 in a marathon 15 inning game.
That game featured 20 runs in the first 9 innings, including Mariano Rivera's 2nd blow save of the season (he has an alarmingly high 7.94 ERA thus far) before going 5.5 straight scoreless extra innings before Kevin Youkilis hit a walk-off RBI single. What's even stranger is that the game only featured 5 homeruns. Travis Hafner and Lyle Overbay continued their hot starts with big games, Hafner was 3-6 with 1 HR, 2 2B, 2 runs and 5 RBI and Overbay was 3-6 with a 2B and 1 run scored.
The Yankees finished out that series with a 1-0 victory in game two where Phil Hughes allowed 4 hits over 8 innings with Mariano Rivera getting back to form with a 2-strikeout save and a 13-3 loss which saw Hiroki Kuroda get shelled. Kuroda is 0-2 with a 7.71 ERA in 3 starts (spanning 14 innings) this season. Hopefully, for the Yankees sake, he can get back to his 2012 form where he was 16-11 with a 3.32 ERA in 219.2 innings. The Yankees current record is 6-7 which is good for 4th in the AL East, 3 1/2 behind the 9-3 Toronto Blue Jays.