Yankees vs A's Saturday Slugfest

[RLA68]

I am coming in late but bottom of 4th...12-3 Yankees.
Homeruns by Tino, ARod and Jeter.

No disrespect but it has to suck to face the Yankees right now...like being on a train track and the #6 led by engineer Torre is steaming in...whoo whoo.

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Matsui Double
Tino Martinez RBI-Single
Posada 2-Run Homerun

Yankees 15-3 going into the bottom of 5th.

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Brown pitches a 1-2-3 fifth and therefore seals a "W" unless the A's make a tremendous comeback.

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A couple of errors by Sanchez(replaced Jeter at SS) and Tino martinez results in 2 unearned runs. Better to have this now tha in a tight game.

15-5 Yankees lead after 6.

[Providence A's]

you guys are only getting hot because you've been playing the hapless a's and m's for 12 games in a row...two teams tied for last place

[Veovis]

Then again, your A's were 13-15 heading into the Stadium, while the Yankees were 11-19. Who was more hapless?

[General]

It's good to see some fire in this team.

[RLA68]

A's tack one on in the 8th, after 8...15-6 Yankees.

Providence, I do not dispute that. I am the one that said the M's and A's are not Baltimore or the Chicago White Sox.

Then again, the talent that this team has, it can be argued that they would kick it into gear eventually.

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A perfect 9th by Quantrill 1-2-3. Yankees win 15-6. Brown pitched 6 innings allowing 3 earned runs.

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=250514111

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The New York Yankees are slugging their way back to .500, and the Oakland Athletics are taking most of the beatings.

Derek Jeter and Tino Martinez hit three-run homers, Alex Rodriguez added his major league-leading 12th shot and the Yankees won their seventh straight, beating the A's 15-6 Saturday night.

New York has beaten Oakland four times in the last eight days. The A's have lost a season-high seven straight.

Jorge Posada also homered, while Martinez had three hits and drove in five runs for the Yankees, who have scored 59 runs during their longest winning streak in more than a year. Hideki Matsui matched his career high with four of New York's 18 hits.

Kevin Brown (2-4) won his second straight start for the Yankees (18-19), who are back within a game of third-place Toronto in the AL East after their April struggles. Though they concentrated largely on improving their pitching staff in the offseason, they're winning with the same big bats that got them within a game of the World Series last fall.

New York demolished Joe Blanton and the A's early on: Every batter except Gary Sheffield had a hit by the fourth. New York sent 35 hitters to the plate in the first five innings, with Jeter and Tony Womack batting in each of the first four frames.

Blanton (0-4) yielded nine runs, seven hits and three walks in 2 2-3 innings. Martinez homered off reliever Tim Harikkala in the fourth, and Posada added a two-run shot in the fifth.

Oakland has allowed 35 runs in its four straight losses to the Yankees.

Martinez's homer onto the short right-field porch was his sixth homer in seven games. His five-game homer streak -- New York's longest since 1987 -- ended Friday night, but the veteran first baseman also had a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring single.

That provided more than enough support for Brown, New York's struggling 40-year-old right-hander. He had lost seven straight starts dating to last season before beating the A's twice in six days.

Brown's teammates staked him to a 4-0 lead in Oakland before he threw a pitch, then gave him an eight-run cushion in the third and a 12-run margin in the fifth. Brown hardly needed to be sharp, but he allowed eight hits and three earned runs in six innings.

Though Blanton still hasn't earned his first major league win, he had pitched superbly in his rookie season until running into the Yankees, who have beaten him twice in a row. His ERA ballooned from 3.22 to 5.08 before manager Ken Macha removed him to scattered booing in the third.

Thanks to Blanton's first-inning jitters and horrific control, New York scored four runs without an extra-base hit. Matsui drew a bases-loaded walk, and another run scored when Blanton hit Rodriguez with the bases loaded.

Rodriguez hit a solo homer to center in the third, and the next five batters all reached base. Jeter chased Blanton with his fourth homer of the year, a hard shot to right-center.

Jason Giambi went 1-for-4 with a walk in his second straight start as the Yankees' designated hitter, slightly raising his average to .200. He had a solid first-inning single, but never got past first base while the usual boos rained down on the former A's star.

A fan threw something at Giambi from a seat near the Yankees' dugout after the slugger flied out in the eighth inning. Several other fans pointed out the thrower, who was brusquely removed.

[nyjunc]

you guys are only getting hot because you've been playing the hapless a's and m's for 12 games in a row...two teams tied for last place

It doesn't matter who it's against, when we were playing poorly we lost 3 of 4 to the Devil rays. We are playing and pitching well and have turned it around.

[joek]

Seventh heaven, I'm in seventh heaven. Lyrics to an old song for you youngsters out there. Seven in a row, one day at a time.

[Providence A's]

junk, the devil dogs were playing well and had a better record at the time than the a's and m's

[nyjunc]

junk, the devil dogs were playing well and had a better record at the time than the a's and m's

playing well? They lost 7 straight going into that 4 games set then beat us 3 of 4.

[Providence A's]

they still weren't a last place team like us and the m's