Game Time: 7:05 p.m. @ Yankee Stadium
TV: YES Radio: WCBS 880
Johnny Damon DH
Derek Jeter SS
Bobby Abreu RF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jason Giambi 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Melky Cabrera CF
Jose Molina C
Brett Gardner LF
Sidney Ponson RHP (5-1, 3.96 ERA)
TWINS
Nick Blackburn RHP (7-5, 3.65 ERA)
PLAYER STATS:
YANKS BA V.S BLACKBURN: (.278)
TWINS BA V.S PONSON: (.273)
NOTES:
George King reports that Jorge Posada told The Post today that he likely will be heading back onto the disabled list with a recurring right shoulder problem. ... Johnny Damon apparently talked his way back into the lineup.
The Yankees have won 8 of their last 11 and seven straight at home. … Cano is 8 of 14 since the break. … Of Jason Giambi’s 20 HR, 12 have tied the game or put the Yankees ahead. …Sidney has faced the Twins twice already this season, allowing two runs over 14.1 innings. He threw a complete game six-hitter in a 10-1 Texas win on May 21. … Blackburn started against the Yankees on June 1 and allowed one run over 4.1 innings.
UPDATE ON JORGE POSADA:
He will see Dr. David Altchek tomorrow and may soon have season-ending surgery to repair the torn labrum in his shoulder. The surgery is such that he may need to get it now to make sure he will be ready for next season.
Posada admitted that he can’t throw and that it has been bothering him all season. Joe Girardi has been saying for weeks now that Posada was improving and he could get through the season but that was obviously wishful thinking.
Hideki Matsui, meanwhile, is putting off his knee surgery and will try and rehab one more time. But given what has happened so far, don’t expect to see him any time soon, if at all.
Brian Bruney is scheduled to throw for Scranton on Tuesday and Wednesday. If all goes well, expect to see him up again.
Phil Hughes is another bullpen and two BP sessions away from getting into a minor league game.
GAME SUMMARY:
The Yankees made it 4-for-4 in games that Sidney Ponson started, tonight beating the Twins 12-4 at The Stadium.
ON THE MOUND:
Sidney went 5.2 innings, allowed three runs on nine hits, while striking out two and walking two. 11 base runners in 5.2 innings isn't good, but like two of his previous three starts he avoided the big inning, and gave the Yanks a pretty good start overall.
Edwar Ramirez struck out the only batter he faced. He now has 43 strike outs in 36.1 innings pitched.
Dave Robertson threw a scoreless 7th, and struck out one. He now has 14 strike outs in 11 innings.
Latroy Hawkins pitched the final two innings, he allowed a run on one hit, and struck out two.
It'll be interesting what the Yankees do with Hawkins once Bruney is ready.
THE OFFENSE:
The Yankees offense showed up today as they racked up 12 runs on 16 hits against Nick Blackburn and three Twins' relievers.
Alex Rodriguez hit a 1st inning two-run homer, his 21st of the year, to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
After the Twins tied it in the top of the 2nd, the Yankees came back and scored four in the bottom half, and another two in the 3rd to put the game away. In the 2nd inning, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez both had RBI singles, Abreu drove also in a run on a fielder's choice, and another run scored on an error by Alexi Casilla. Robinson Cano hit a solo homer into the upper deck in the 3rd to make it a 7-2 game, and the Yankees added another on a Johnny Damon RBI ground-rule double.
Derek Jeter led off the 6th with a solo homer to right. The Yankees scored two more in the inning, one on a Cano RBI single, and another on a throwing error to make it 11-3. They added their 12th run in the bottom of the 8th.
Every Yankee starter besides Jason Giambi got a hit. Six Yankees had multi-hit games.
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