Yankees Bounce Back With A 2-1 Win Over The Blue Jays

By On August 28, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Game Recaps

There’s nothing like a good bounce-back victory to help get rid of the rancid taste of last night’s loss from everyone’s mouth.

, who struggled in his last outing against the Blue Jays, went seven innings for the Yankees, only giving up one earned run on four hits and out-dueled who also went seven innings tonight, giving up two earned runs on five hits for Toronto. Romero, who started the year 8-1 is now 8-12 for the Blue Jays.

Hughes struck out five and the lone run was a solo shot by .

started things for the Yankees in the third inning with an RBI single that scored . Nix had himself a good night at the plate finish 2-3 with two singles – he was the only Yankee with a multi-hit night.  hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth which scored the newly arrived for the Yankees’ only other run.

With the way Hughes pitched, two runs were enough to win. And with the Yankees lineup tonight, two runs seemed like a miracle.

New papa needed only five pitches to retire the Blue Jays in the eighth and added a perfect inning of his own in the ninth to close out the game and pick up his 34th save of the year.

The Yankees will try to close out the series with a victory tomorrow afternoon at the Stadium with taking on in a battle of pitchers with initials as first names. Happ is 9-10 with a 4.68 ERA and Sabathia is 13-3 with a 3.44 ERA.

 
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2 Responses to Yankees Bounce Back With A 2-1 Win Over The Blue Jays

  1. Professor Longnose says:
    August 29, 2012 at 10:44 am

    I’m going to hold off calling it a bounceback until they prove they can score more than one run an inning.

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