GRANDERSON CRANKS 200TH & YANKEES WIN SERIES IN CLEVELAND

Freddy Garcia was fairly good today. All we needed from him was to be good and he did that. He continues to do the job for the Yankees and that's what we love about Freddy.  His line looked like this:4.2 IP, 4 H, 2 R and 6 Strikeouts!

The Yankees struck first in the 3rd as Eric Chavez started it off with a base hit and Raul Ibanez followed with a walk. Ichiro Suzuki scored Chavez with an RBI single off of Ubaldo Jiminez's glove.  Chris Stewart did his job by moving over the runners with a beauty bunt Jeter followed with an RBI ground out and Swisher made it 3-0 with an RBI single.

The Indians threatened in the bottom half of the 3rd but Garcia got Santana to pop out with the bases loaded. Garcia worked a 1-2-3 4th inning to stay on a roll. The Indians got on the scoreboard in the 5th by a double by Kipnis and Cabrera would be hit by Garcia's pitch. Shin Soo Choo walked and then Santana hit a 2 RBI single that would end Freddy's day. Boone Logan came in and got Michael Brantley to pop out.

Granderson in the top half of the 6th hit his 200th career home run to make it 4-2 Yankees. Congrats Grandy! Nick Swisher started the 7th inning off with a double but the Yankees would strand him there. Logan and Robertson combined for a scoreless 7th and Yankees didn't get anything done in the 8th. DRob struck-out Carlos Santana and Casey Kotchman and nearly have up a 2 run home run that would of tied the game but Ichiro caught it at the track. Yankees threatened in the 9th but Jeter hit into an inning ending double play. Rafael Soriano worked a scoreless 9th and the Yankees escape Cleveland with a series win.

Keys of the Game: The bullpen; the Yankees bullpen did the job working 4 and 1/3 innings this afternoon.

Final: Yankees 4 - Indians 2
W: Logan (5-2) L: Jiminez (9-13) S: Soriano (33)

--Sam Thaler, BYB Contributor
Twitter: @samt1836





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