Yankees bullpen shows vulnerbility against Twins

TWINS 5
YANKEES 4

Everything was going according to the Yankees master plan.

CC Sabathia pitched seven brilliant innings, giving up only two hits and no runs, and his Yankees were staked to a 4-0 lead.

Mark Teixeria who has had a monster April, blasted his fourth homer of the year, and third three-run shot to give the Yankees an early 3-0 advantage.

Yet, the rest of the Yankees grand plan didn't work: the bullpen.

Rafael Soriano who has been intrusted with the eighth inning, blew up under the New York lights last night, giving up four runs in the eighth to blow up any chance of a clean Yankee win. First, Soriano walked David Valencia and Jim Thome to get into pretty, pretty, pretty big trouble. Darren Span followed with a sharp single to center to load em up, before Joe Mauer walked with the bases loaded to drive in the Twins first run.

Joe Girardi immediately pulled Soriano in favor of David Robertson, and Mr. Robertson just couldn't hold the lead. He gave up a bases clearing double to Delmon Young to tie the game.

The game went into extras, and it was the Twins and former league MVP who got it done. Mauer, who has been struggling so far this year, laced a single to right to drive in Span for the winning run.

Yankees lose. DAAAAAAAAAAAA Yankees lose.