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New Bats Give Yankees Boost

The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 4, 2008

NEW YORK - After a wild win against baseball's top team, Xavier Nady and the New York Yankees hit the road with some timely momentum.

Nady homered and had a career-high six RBIs, rallying New York past the sloppy Los Angeles Angels 14-9 in a back-and-forth game Sunday.
Mark Teixeira hit a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning for his first home run with Los Angeles, but New York took advantage of clumsy defense by the Angels to score six times in the bottom half and complete its largest comeback this season.

"It was a crazy ballgame, but it was a big win," Ivan Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez's first homer for the Yankees started their unlikely rally from a five-run deficit against ace John Lackey. New York scored 10 unearned runs in its final two at-bats as the Angels matched a season high with four errors.

It was an important victory for the playoff-hopeful Yankees, who gained a split of the four-game series, sending the Angels to their fourth loss in 18 games.

Los Angeles, which has the best record in the majors at 69-42, completed its East Coast trip 7-3 by losing for only the third time in its past 13 away from home.

Lackey came within two outs of a no-hitter Tuesday night at Boston. This time, the right-hander was given a 5-0 lead, but he couldn't put away the Yankees.

Rodriguez, acquired Wednesday from Detroit, hit a solo shot in the fifth. Nady's two-run double in the sixth helped New York cut it to 5-4, and Lackey left after 102 pitches.

The Yankees caught their first big break in the seventh when center fielder Gary Matthews Jr., filling in for perennial Gold Glove winner Torii Hunter, tried for a running catch on Derek Jeter's deep drive to left-center and dropped the ball for an error.
Bobby Abreu followed with an RBI single for his third hit, tying it at 5.

Three batters later, Nady, who finished with four hits, smacked a three-run shot off Jose Arredondo for his third home run since being acquired July 26 from Pittsburgh.

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