[新聞] Yankees ride Giambi's homers to win

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Yankees ride Giambi's homers to win
Slugger slams two long balls, including go-ahead shot in 10th
By Mark Feinsand / MLB.com

BOSTON -- The Yankees and Red Sox took part in yet another Boston Marathon on
Sunday night, and this one ended exactly like the first three -- with a New
York win.
After bashing Boston pitching around Fenway Park for the first three games,
the Yankees handed the Red Sox the most brutal of the four losses, taking an
8-5 victory in 10 innings. New York came back to tie the game in the ninth
against Jonathan Papelbon, then scored three times against Craig Hansen in
the 10th on home runs by Jason Giambi -- his second of the game -- and Jorge
Posada.

"You can never imagine coming in here, winning four games and doing what
we've done," said manager Joe Torre. "This ballclub just won't be denied.
This may have been the most incredible one of all."

Mariano Rivera, who escaped a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the ninth with the
score tied, closed out the win with a scoreless 10th to earn the victory. The
game, which included a 57-minute rain delay after the second inning, lasted
4:17.

"That game could have been over with one swing of the bat," Giambi said.
"That's what makes him the greatest closer of all-time."

The Yankees increased their lead over the Red Sox to 5 1/2 games in the
American League East with their fourth straight win over their rivals. The
two teams close out their five-game series on Monday as Cory Lidle takes on
David Wells.

"It's tough; rough night," said Curt Schilling, who allowed three runs over
seven innings in a no-decision. "We've been out-pitched, out-hit and
out-played for four games in a row. ... We put ourselves in this hole."

Mike Mussina allowed three runs in four innings before leaving the game with
tightness in his right groin. After giving up a run in the fourth that tied
the game at 3, he was escorted to the clubhouse by assistant trainer Steve
Donohue.

The scenario was similar to his outing on June 30 against the Mets, a game in
which he threw four hitless innings before a 63-minute rain delay -- and a
slight groin injury -- kept him from going out for the fifth. Following that
game, Mussina made his next start five days later.

"By the end of the [fourth] inning, it was grabbing on me every pitch,"
Mussina said. "When it's grabbing me that often, I know if I go too much
longer I'm going to really hurt something, so I had to tell somebody and be
smart before I knock myself out for a month."

Ron Villone replaced Mussina, but after getting the first two outs in the
fifth, Villone served up a 2-1 pitch to David Ortiz which was crushed over
Boston's bullpen in right-center. Big Papi's 44th homer put Boston ahead,
4-3, giving Schilling another lead.

Schilling retired nine of the next 10 batters, mowing through the Yankees'
lineup from the fifth through the seventh. He left the game after 109
pitches, turning a 5-3 lead over to Mike Timlin.

Johnny Damon singled and Timlin hit Derek Jeter, putting the tying runs on
base. Lefty Javier Lopez came in for Bobby Abreu, walking him to load the
bases. That brought Papelbon in from the bullpen to get the final six outs.

Giambi lifted a sacrifice fly to right, narrowly missing a grand slam, to
pull the Yankees within a run. Jeter moved to third, putting the tying run 90
feet from home plate. Alex Rodriguez walked to load the bases again, but
Papelbon struck out Robinson Cano and Posada, stranding all three runners to
preserve the lead.

"That kid Papelbon has [guts] of steel, man; he didn't waiver one bit,"
Giambi said. "He was coming after everybody in a big situation. To be so
young, he's got great composure on the mound. ... That kid is ice out there."

Down to their final three outs, the Yankees went back to work against
Papelbon in the ninth. Melky Cabrera led off with a double to right-center,
putting the tying run in scoring position. Papelbon unleashed a wild pitch,
advancing Cabrera to third with no outs.

The closer struck out both Bernie Williams and Damon, but Jeter fisted an 0-1
single to shallow right field, scoring Cabrera to tie the game. It was the
sixth blown save of the season for Papelbon, his third in August.

"I enjoy being in those situations," Jeter said. "You're not going to be
successful all the time, but you can't shy away from them."

"Jeet does the little things as good as I've ever seen anybody do them,"
Giambi said. "He's a flat-out winner; he finds a way to get it done in a big
spot. He's Superman."

Ortiz opened the bottom of the ninth with a double to right, a hit which was
generously scored after the chopper went over Giambi's head. Rivera
intentionally walked Ramirez, and after foiling a sacrifice bunt attempt and
getting the first out at third base, a passed ball moved the runners to
second and third.

"After that moment, there's no turning back," Rivera said of the passed ball.
"You can't go back; you have to go forward."

Following a visit to the mound by Torre, Rivera intentionally walked Mike
Lowell to load the bases with one out. He came back to strike out
pinch-hitter Eric Hinske and got Doug Mirabelli to ground out back to the
mound, moving the tie game to the 10th.

"I have a job to do; in a situation like that, you're just focusing on one
hitter at a time," Rivera said. "We have one out with bases loaded. You have
to make your pitches and you get them out and you deal with the next guy. It
was good. I was able to make good pitches."

"Mariano has that little something under his collar when he needs to find it,
and it's something you don't see in the box score," Torre said. "He's got a
heart as big as this room."

Giambi opened the 10th with a scorching line drive off Hansen, a ball which
barely eluded the glove of Coco Crisp before clearing the wall in
right-center.

"I covered that ball, but I didn't know if it was high enough to get out,"
Giambi said. "Coco was right there, and I thought he might catch it; he ran
into the wall and I saw the ball bounce, then the umpire signaled home run."

One out later, Cano doubled, setting up Posada's two-run insurance shot.
Rivera finished the game with a scoreless 10th.

"These are the greatest four games I've played in my career. No doubt about
it," Giambi said. "The way we came in here after getting our butts handed to
us by Baltimore, nobody really knew what was going to happen. We got the
first two, came back in the day game against Josh [Beckett] and then tonight;
they were probably some of the greatest team wins I've ever been involved
with."


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