Last Night's Action: Sweep!

Yankees 4 Tampa Bay 1: The Yankees won a pitcher’s duel in the first game of their doubleheader Monday. C.C. Sabathia went seven-strong, but he did not collect the win because Matt Garza matched him frame for frame. But, the Yankees broke through in the eighth, turning a 1-1 game into a 4-1 win. Robinson Cano hit a sac fly to make it 2-1. Jorge Posada and Eric Hinske both added RBI’s. That’s all Mariano Rivera needed as he pitched for the first time since September 1st and nailed down his 39th save.
Yankees 11 Tampa Bay 1: When things go right, they really go right. Jose Molina couldn’t get a sacrifice bunt down in the third inning, but it didn’t matter. In fact, Molina singled twice in that inning, part of a 17-hit attack from the New York offense. A.J. Burnett pitched his best game in almost a month and Mark Teixeira launched two home runs as New York opened up a nine-game lead in the AL East.

Photograph of Mariano Rivera making the save by Bill Kostroun/AP

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