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NEW YORK -- With Roger Clemens on his way to the Bronx,the Yankees picked
as good a time as any to roll the clocks back and check if the old nostalgia
still worked.
Andy Pettitte pitched eight solid innings, Mariano Rivera handled the late
innings flawlessly and Derek Jeter came up with the game-winning hit as
the Yankees defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in 10 innings Friday, 5-4.
"It was another good win," Pettitte said. "Let's keep it going.We're starting
to play a lot better, and you can tell guys are starting to get a lot more
confident.You can see it. It shows."
New York pushed across the winning run against Bucs reliever Matt Capps,
winning its fourth consecutive game to set a new season-high streak.
Robinson Cano led off the frame by doubling off the top of the left-field fence
,missing a home run by mere feet. Melky Cabrera sacrificed and Miguel Cairo
legged out an infield single to put runners at the corners with one out.
Johnny Damon was walked intentionally after Cairo took second base,
and Jeter followed with a slow bouncer to the right side of the infield that
went unfielded by second baseman Freddy Sanchez to win the game.
"These are the types of games," Yankees manager Joe Torre said,
"that in the past, we've had a habit of winning."
Jeter said he was fooled on a two-seam fastball that he wasn't aware Capps had
-- one drawback of the learn-as-you-go style of Interleague Play --
and barely got enough to force Cano home with the winning run.
"I was lucky, that's pretty much all you can say," Jeter said. "It's not like
you can try to hit it right there."
Paced by Chris Duffy's inside-the-park home run,the Pirates had spurts of
output against Pettitte, who had never faced Pittsburgh with New York
but had dominant efforts against the Bucs while pitching for the Houston Astros
,including two starts last season.
With two outs and one on against Pettitte in the seventh, Duffy ripped a
knuckling line drive to center field that Melky Cabrera misjudged,leaping
in vain as the ball rolled all the way to the wall.
Duffy raced around the bases and scored standing up without a throw for the
Pirates' first inside-the-park home run since 2004.It was the first
inside-the-parker hit at Yankee Stadium since Shawn Chacon served one up
to Oakland's Nick Swisher last June.
"That's not [Cabrera's] fault," Jeter said. "That was a knuckleball.A lot of
, people watch games and think every ground ball is easy and every fly ball
is easy. You watch guys try to hit knuckleballs going 60 miles per hour,
and it's a lot tougher to catch one going a lot harder."
"The ball hit out to Melky had to be at least 95 miles an hour," Damon said,
"and when it's knuckling, you have no idea what it's going to do.
I feel for him. I've seen plenty of it."
Though the Pirates got Pettitte for four runs this time around,
including an Xavier Nady solo homer in the second, the left-hander worked
past the eighth inning and turned a tie game over to the bullpen for the ninth
inning,walking one intentionally and striking out five in a 98-pitch
performance.
"I know these guys, and they know me," Pettitte said of the Pirates. "They're
definitely a pesky lineup."
Though so many of Pettitte's efforts have been of the tough-luck variety,
a good evening's effort and a Yankees victory gave Pettitte satisfaction in
setting a welcoming stage for Clemens,his two-time teammate and good friend,
to walk into on Saturday afternoon.
"It's a good time for him to be coming back," Pettitte said."We feel a lot
better about ourselves. We look forward to him getting in this rotation and
getting in the shape that he needs to be in to get this thing rolling."
The Yankees trailed through the first 5 1/2 innings before Hideki Matsui
slugged a line-drive two-run homer, his sixth, off Pirates starter
Tom Gorzelanny in the sixth.
After Duffy's inside-the-park home run, the Yankees got the runs right back
in a lengthy bottom of the seventh. Cairo opened the inning with a double
to left-center and, after a groundout, Jeter came through with a run-scoring
single to center.
"Gorzelanny is pretty special," Torre said. "He's got a lot of equipment
out there,but we just ran him out pitch-count (117) wise."
The Pirates turned to left-hander John Grabow, who allowed an opposite-field
hit to Bobby Abreu, and reliever Salomon Torres hit Alex Rodriguez
with the first pitch he threw to load the bases.
Jorge Posada, another mainstay from the Yankees' most successful playoff
campaigns, followed with a run-scoring single to right, tying the game.
With Pettitte done after eight innings, Rivera picked up his second victory
with two innings of scoreless relief -- his longest outing of the season --
working out of trouble in the ninth before inducing a double play by Nady
to end the 10th.
"Our job is to maintain the game close and wait until our offense
explodes to put some runs on the board," Rivera said. "And that's exactly
what happened."
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