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| Yankees 5 vs. Rangers 2 |
After consecutive games of the starting pitcher lasting only 4.1 innings, the New York Yankees, as much as anything, needed length from their starting pitcher Saturday.
And they got it. From Freddy Garcia pitching against the Texas Rangers, believe it or not.
Facing one of the toughest lineups in the league (with or without Josh Hamilton), Garcia worked six shutout innings in his first start of the season.
The veteran soft-tosser allowed only two singles and one walk to the Rangers, and he needed only 84 pitches (55 strikes) to finish six nearly-unthreatened innings.
Garcia almost certainly could have pitched at least one more inning, but with a 3-0 lead, Joe Girardi opted to turn the game over to his Jo-So-Mo combo—Joba Chamberlain, Rafael Soriano and Mariano Rivera. Chamberlain and Rivera were very good, each pitching around a base hit in the seventh and ninth innings respectively. Soriano, however, was extremely shaky.
Pitching with an at-the-time 3-0 game, Soriano allowed two runs on three hits and a walk. He was only a few feet from giving up the game, but a would-be go-ahead homer for Adrian Beltre faded just foul. Beltre eventually hit into a double play to end the Rangers' threat and preserve the Yankees' lead.
Mo took over in the ninth with a 5-2 lead (thanks to a Cano 2-run homer) and retired three of the four batters he faced to end the game and record his sixth save of the season.
But beyond any shadow of a doubt, Freddy Garcia was hero #1 for the New York Yankees today.
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