April 7, 2011 (Yankees vs. Twins) [W]

While I was the librarian at school today, the Yankees were playing the Twins at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Although it should have been their 4th game of the series, due to inclement weather yesterday, it was the third and final game of the series. No makeup date has been announced for yesterday’s game as of yet.

AJ Burnett & Co. defeated the Twins 4-3 on Thursday. As mentioned earlier, Burnett pitched through an illness on Saturday when he defeated the Tigers on Saturday. AJ went 6 innings, gave up 2 walks, allowed 2 run and struck out 5.

Brett Gardner walked in the third and went on to steal second base. On Jeter’s ground ball he advanced to third and scored on Swisher’s sac fly to right field. In the bottom of the 4th, Alex Rodriguez walked and Robinson Cano singled. Jorge Posada and Andruw Jones struck out but Russel Martin hit an RBI groundout. Gardner brought in the 4th Yankees run with a single.

The Yankees will face the Red Sox (who are currently 0-6 in the standings) this weekend. Should be fun to see who comes out on top. *fingers crossed* The Yankees won’t disappoint!

Notes:

The Yankees, who hit 13 homers in their first 5 games, earned all four runs today without doing so.

Including the postseason, the Yankees have now won 32 of their last 39 at home against the Twins.

They have won 10 consecutive regular-season home series against Minnesota in a streak that dates back to May 8-10, 2001.

They finish the season-opening homestand with a 4-2 record.

April 4, 2011 (Yankees vs. Twins) [W]

Both Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada hit two-run homers off Scott Baker to support Ivan Nova in the 4-3 Yankees win on Monday. Nova pitched six innings, the first 3 of which were hitless. With A-Rod’s two RBIs, he surpassed Dave Winfield on the all-time RBI list. Congrat’s Alex! 🙂 Finally, Joba Chamberlain was great in the 7th while Rafael Soriano and Mariano Rivera worked out of singles. But let’s be honest….do we really expect anything but perfection from Mo? Didn’t think so. 🙂

A-Bombs Away!

I can’t think of a better way to get back into the swing of things than to celebrate Alex Rodriguez’s 3 homerun game – the 4th of his career!

In the 6th inning, Alex blasted one to left-center, but he wasn’t the only person to homer in the 6th; later on in the inning, Jorge Posada and Curtis Granderson also went back to back. Note about the back to back shots: It is the 4th time the Yankees have been able to do that this season!

Alex added 2 more HRs to his stats with the last shot being his 604th of his career and his 21st of the season. Ironically it was also his longest blast of the night at 439 feet.

The Yankees went on to beat the Kansas City Royals 8-3.