The Yankees extended their winning streak to five, mashing the Padres 8-0. The Yankee bats pounded out an early lead led by Alex Rodriguez, crushing a solo home-run to center succeeded by a Jason Giambi two-run homer to right field. The Yankees tagged five runs in the 4th inning sparked by another Jason Giambi two-run shot to left center field and the offense is on absolute tear scoring 29 runs in the last three games, while blasting at least one home-run in ten consecutive games. The pitching has been lights out as the Yankees have scored 24 unanswered runs. The pitchers have tossed 20 consecutive scoreless innings and Andy Pettitte contributed to that streak tonight providing the Yankees with hope he can help fill the void of injured pitcher Chien-Ming Wang. Pettitte pitched seven outstanding innings yielding five hits and one walk, while matching a season-high nine strike-outs. Pettitte has only allowed one run during his last 15 innings and should continue to improve as he usually does the second half of the season. The bullpen continues to slam the door on the opposition as Jose Veras, Billy Traber, and Mariano Rivera combined for three scoreless innings. The pitchers have tossed back-to-back shut-outs and May 7th and May 8th of 2005 was the last time the Yankees executed such a feat. The Yankees are a season-high five games over .500 and didn’t obtain that status until July 21st last season. The Yankees look to keep the momentum rolling when Darrell Rasner duels ace Jake Peavy tomorrow night.
Andy Pettitte was extremely efficient and effective tonight tossing seven scoreless innings and has improved drastically his last two starts.
Video clip of Jason Giambi’s second two-run home-run curtesy of MLB.com:
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