Yankees Continue To Roll
YANKEES 6ROYALS 1
The Yankees continued their domination of the Kansas City Royals Saturday with another convincing 6-1 victory. However, the biggest story of the evening for the Bronx Bombers is the bounce back effort by C.C. Sabathia.
Sabathia, who was lit up Monday in Baltimore, settled into his role as the new ace of the Yankees, pitching for seven and two-thirds innings, scattering six hits and no runs, while striking out six Royals. It was a dominating effort by one of baseball's best starting pitchers.
Offensively, the Yankees pounded Horacio Ramirez for six runs on eight hits in four and a third innings. In the first inning, after Johnny Damon singled and Nick Swisher walked, Jorge Posada doubled down the right field line to drive in both runners to give the Bombers a quick 2-0 lead.
In the third, Derek Jeter led off with a single and stole second, which set up Swisher's RBI triple into the right field corner.Two batters later, Posada delivered again with a double to the left center gap, driving in Swisher to make it 4-0 Yankees. Finally, in the fifth inning, Swisher capped his big night with a two run home run to left off Ramirez to make it 6-0 Yankees.
The Yankees now improve to 3-2 on the season. BOX SCORE.
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