ALDS Game 1: Yanks win first game of ALDS
October 7, 2009
Less than 24 hours after winning the AL Central Division title in a tiebreaker against the Tigers, the Twins found themselves at Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the ALDS to face the New York Yankees, who hold the best regular season record in baseball.
The Twins were the first to strike and got on the board in the third inning when Michael Cuddyer hit an RBI single to score Orlando Cabrera from third. Joe Mauer would score shortly after when Jorge Posada would let a ball fly out of his glove and into the corner to make it 2-0.
The Yankees wouldn’t let the Twins hold on to the lead for long as Derek Jeter would hit a 2-run homer off Brian Duensing to tie the game in the bottom half of the third. In the bottom of the fourth, Nick Swisher would hit a two out double down the left field line that scored Robinson Cano.
With the lead in hand, the Yankees wouldn’t look back and extended their lead in the fifth off an two out RBI single from Alex Rodriguez. Francisco Liriano replaced Duensing after that single and immediately gave up a 2-run run homer to Hideki Matsui, the first batter he faced, to give the Yankees a 6-2 lead.
The Yankees would add one more run in the seventh as Rodriguez would plate his second RBI of the game on a line drive to right that bounced off the wall.
Mariano Rivera would close out the game in the ninth and picked up two strike outs to give the Yankees the first win of the best-of-five series.
Attendance: 49,464 (Yankee Stadium)
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