Jeter and Yankees Fly Solo

The players and fans are still getting used to the new Yankee Stadium, but one thing has already been established. Baseballs fly out of the park to right field. The Yankees hit five, count 'em five, solo home runs to right field this afternoon to overcome a poor outing by Joba Chamberlain and beat the Cleveland Indians 6-5 for their first win in the new digs.

The game winning run was knocked in, appropriately, by Derek Jeter, who hit the last of the Yankees long balls. Mariano Rivera picked up his third save after striking out Grady Sizemore and Mark DeRosa with two men on base.

Chamberlain was ineffective, walking five batters in 4.2 innings and was charged with all five Indians runs. But unlike opening day, the bullpen was solid and shut down the Indians the rest of the game.

The Yankees once again had trouble getting a clutch hit with men on base, but had no problem going yard. Down 1-0 on a DeRosa home run, Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira hit back to back jacks to right off of starter Anthony Reyes in the third inning to put the Yankees up 2-1.

Tied 2-2, after Chamberlain walked two batters and gave up an RBI single to Ben Francisco, Melky Cabrera homered off the facing of the upper deck in right for a 3-2 lead after four innings. But Chamberlain ran out of rope in the fifth.

With his pitch count quickly rising, Chamberlain walked the nine hitter, Asdrubel Cabrera to start the fifth. Back to back singles by Sizemore and DeRosa tied the game and a wild pitch moved them both into scoring position. Victor Martinez's sacrifice fly gave the Indians a 4-3 and two batters later Ryan Garko sent Joba to the showers with an RBI double.

Robinson Cano homered off of Zach Jackson in the sixth and the Yankees tied the game in the seventh when Vinny Chulk threw away Teixeira's grounder, allowing Damon to score from first base.

Game Notes

Derek Jeter's home run was his 209th, tieing him with Jason Giambi for 10th place on the all-time list.

Brian Bruney struck out Travis Hafner to give him six consecutive strikes out over three appearances. Bruney retired the side in order in the eighth an added a strike out of Shin-Soo Choo.

	Final		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		R		H		E
	Cleveland	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	5	9	1
	NY Yankees	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	1	X	6	8	0
WP: B. Bruney (2-0) S: M. Rivera (3) LP: J. Lewis (1-1)