SORIANO, PETTITTE STAR AS YANKS POUND BOSOX
Bombers Crush 5 HRs in Victory
NEW YORK, May 27 (AP) - It's been a rough season thus far for the New York
Yankees, but they extracted a degree of satisfaction today at Yankee Stadium by
roughing up the rival Boston Red Sox, 11-1, before a sellout crowd.
Alfonso Soriano and Jason Giambi both homered twice and Raul Mondesi went deep
as well as the Yankees chased Boston starter Bruce Chen in the second
inning. Andy Pettitte, meanwhile, turned in his most impressive start of
the year to date, holding the Red Sox to four hits and one run in eight innings
while fanning 11. The victory for Pettite (3-5) was his third in his last
four decisions following an 0-4 start to the season.
The Yankees all but put the game away in the first inning. Derek Jeter
started the frame off by lining an infield single off Chen's glove and Hideki
Matsui's single into the right field corner advanced Jeter to third.
Soriano then unloaded on a Chen change-up, depositing the ball into the
monuments area in left-center field for a three-run home run. Giambi
followed that with a long ball of his own, off the upper deck facade in right
for a 4-0 New York advantage. After Jorge Posada fanned for the first out
of the inning, Mondesi homered into the lower grandstand in left, just inside
the foul pole, to put the Yankees ahead 5-0.
The Red Sox got a run back in the second when Shea Hillenbrand's RBI double
plated Kevin Millar, who had singled to lead off the inning, but that was all
the offense Boston would muster.
In the second, the Yankees got the run back plus one. Todd Zeile led off
with a walk and moved to second on Jeter's ground out. Matsui flied out
but Soriano doubled past Hillenbrand at third to score Zeile and Giambi followed
with a single to center, scoring Soriano with the Yankees' seventh run of the
game.
Soriano drove in his fifth run of the contest when his fourth inning sacrifice
fly plated Matsui, who had tripled, and Matsui's fielder's choice in the fifth
drove home Zeile, who had doubled earlier, with the ninth New York run of the
game.
Giambi's second home run of the contest, his 19th of the season, came in the
sixth and accounted for the Yankees' 10th run and Soriano capped the scoring
with his second blast of the game. The home run came off Ramiro Mendoza in
the eighth inning and was his 15th homer of the season.
The victory was the first of the season for the Yankees against Boston after
four consecutive defeats to open the year. New York still trails the Red
Sox by 17 1/2 games in the American League East.
5/27/2003, Bos03-NYY03, Yankee Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 2003 Red Sox 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 7 1 2003 Yankees 5 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 x 11 14 0 6 0 Red Sox AB R H BI AVG Yankees AB R H BI AVG Damon cf 4 0 2 0 .280 Jeter ss 4 1 2 0 .390 Mueller 2b 4 0 0 0 .341 Gipson ph 1 0 0 0 .222 Garciaparra ss 4 0 1 0 .355 Wilson,E ss 0 0 0 0 .175 Ramirez,M lf 3 0 0 0 .382 Matsui cf 5 2 2 1 .311 Jackson,D 2b 1 0 1 0 .340 Soriano,A 2b 4 3 3 6 .319 Millar rf 4 1 1 0 .287 Giambi,Ja dh 4 2 3 3 .313 Ortiz,D 1b 3 0 0 0 .301 Posada c 4 0 0 0 .209 Nixon rf 0 0 0 0 .346 Mondesi rf 4 1 2 1 .281 Hillenbrand 3b 4 0 1 1 .309 Ventura 3b 4 0 0 0 .208 Giambi,Je dh 4 0 0 0 .205 Rivera,J lf 4 0 1 0 .105 Varitek c 2 0 0 0 .290 Zeile 1b 2 2 1 0 .232 33 1 6 1 36 11 14 11 Red Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Chen,B L 2-1 1.2 7 7 7 1 2 45 28 11.19 Person 2.0 2 1 1 3 2 39 17 6.23 White,M 2.1 3 2 2 0 2 36 22 7.71 Mendoza 2.0 2 1 1 0 2 16 13 3.57 8.0 14 11 11 4 8 136 80 Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Pettitte W 3-5 8.0 4 1 1 1 11 104 68 3.38 Acevedo,Ju 1.0 2 0 0 1 1 24 16 6.46 9.0 6 1 1 2 12 128 84 Bos: Mueller moved to 3b in the 7th Jackson,D inserted at 2b in the 7th Millar moved to lf in the 7th Nixon inserted at rf in the 7th Hillenbrand moved to 1b in the 7th NYY: Gipson batted for Jeter in the 7th Wilson,E inserted at ss in the 8th 2B-Garciaparra(18), Hillenbrand(17), Soriano,A(13), Zeile(2). 3B-Matsui(1). HR-Soriano,A 2(15), Giambi,Ja 2(19), Mondesi(9). RBI-Hillenbrand(30), Matsui(30), Soriano,A 6(43), Giambi,Ja 3(55), Mondesi(30). K-Damon 2, Garciaparra 2, Ramirez,M, Millar, Ortiz,D 2, Giambi,Je 3, Varitek, Jeter, Giambi,Ja, Posada 2, Mondesi, Ventura 3. BB-Varitek, Nixon, Giambi,Ja, Posada, Zeile 2. SF-Soriano,A. WP-Pettitte. GWRBI: Soriano,A Temperature: 55, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 7 MPH. Attendance: 54,594 Game Time: 2:44