Game 39: Yankees complete four game sweep
Minnesota @ New York (Game 4 of 4)
Glen Perkins took to the mound with a 2-0 lead off of RBI singles from Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau. The lead wouldn’t last long, however, as Perkins would give up back-to-back home runs to Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez and give the Yankees a 4-2 lead. The bleeding wouldn’t stop as Perkins pitched to all nine batters in the first inning and gave up six runs off seven hits over 2/3 innings.
R.A. Dickey was brought out and put an end to the inning and held the Yankees to only three hits over the next four innings to give the Twins a chance to catch up. Michael Cuddyer hit a lead-off home run to left field to start the fourth inning and bring the Twins within three of tying the game. The Twins scored again in the sixth on an RBI single from Denard Span that brought in Carlos Gomez.
Luis Ayala was brought in to relieve Dickey in the sixth and picked up two strike outs, however, Teixeira would go deep for the second time of the night in the bottom of the seventh to extend their lead to 7-4. The Twins would score a run in the eighth and ninth innings off of a home run by Denard Span and grounder from Cuddyer that scored Matt Tolbert, but would come up short and fall to the Yankees 7-6.
The win for the Yankees gave them the clean sweep of the series and only outscored the Twins by five runs over the four games.
Attendance: 43,244
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