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Giambi helps Yankees avert sweep
Slugger’s two homers support solid effort by Wang
By Mark Feinsand / MLB.com
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yankees didn’t have to wait long to wash the bad taste of Saturday night’s loss out of their mouths.
New York tagged Brad Radke for six runs in as many innings on Sunday, salvaging the final game of the weekend series with a 9-3 victory over the Twins.
Jason Giambi homered twice, Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano each went deep and Chien-Ming Wang tossed seven solid innings to pull the Yankees (6-6) back to .500.
“The whole club was upset from yesterday’s game, but they were pretty determined when they came out,” said manager Joe Torre. “It meant a lot to me. It’s important to finish, especially with an off-day [on Monday], and enjoy a win — especially bouncing back from a tough loss like we had last night.”
“It was huge, especially with the way the Twins beat us [Saturday],” Giambi said. “We could have easily had the momentum swing and gotten swept today.”
Giambi, who was given the day off Saturday to avoid playing three consecutive games on the Metrodome’s artificial turf, was one of four Yankees to have three hits in the game. The top five hitters in the lineup combined to go 14-for-23 with six extra-base hits, seven runs scored and seven RBIs.
“It was nice the way we responded today,” said Rodriguez, who went 3-for-5 with a homer, a double and two RBIs.
Giambi got the Yankees on the board in the second, blasting a two-run home run to dead-center field against Radke. The homer, Giambi’s third, was measured at 451 feet.
Cano tacked on another run in the second, singling in Hideki Matsui.
Minnesota ran itself out of a scoring opportunity in the second, giving Wang one of the few breaks he would need. Wang held the Twins scoreless through the first four innings, striking out five.
“He felt real good about all of his pitches,” said catcher Jorge Posada. “We used his changeup a little bit, used both sides of his plate with his sinker. He really got ahead of pretty much every hitter.”
Cano belted his first homer of the season in the fifth, sneaking an opposite-field shot into the first row of the left-field seats. Gary Sheffield added an RBI double, boosting the lead to 5-0.
The Twins finally got to Wang in the fifth, plating one run on Shannon Stewart’s RBI single, and another after Matsui bobbled the ball in left field, cutting the lead to 5-2.
Giambi pushed the lead back to four runs in the sixth, crushing a solo shot into the upper deck in right field. It was the 31st career multihomer game for Giambi.
“I guessed a couple of good times today and got them good,” Giambi said. “It’s always fun to compete against Brad Radke, because he thinks so much out there. He got a few balls up and I didn’t miss them.”
Radke (2-1) left the game after six innings, charged with six earned runs on 10 hits.
New York continued to pour it on in the seventh, scoring three more times to make it a 9-2 game. A-Rod, who criticized his recent play after Saturday’s loss, capped the inning with a two-run homer. The homer was No. 432 for A-Rod, moving him past Cal Ripken for 36th place on the all-time list.
“I expect a lot out of myself. When I swing the bat really well, the boys roll,” Rodriguez said. “It’s important for me to go out and take responsibility for what I have to do each and every day.”
Wang (1-0) pitched through the seventh, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits. He struck out a career-high eight batters without issuing a walk.
“Wang was terrific,” Torre said. “He couldn’t have been any better for us than he was.”
“The first two nights, we fought and fought and it just didn’t happen,” Posada said. “Today, we established a lot of good things early, got the bats going, and that helped Wanger to relax out there.”
Mark Feinsand is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.