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07-03-2010, 09:43 PM
c/p from tsn by the a/p
NEW YORK -- Andy Pettitte kept ducking down the dugout tunnel between innings Saturday, trying to find some air conditioning on a steamy summer afternoon.
When he headed inside during the third inning, he might as well have taken a nap.
Brett Gardner hit his first career grand slam and Alex Rodriguez drove in four more runs during the Yankees' biggest offensive outburst in five years, which took 37 minutes and carried New York to an 11-3 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.
"You want your guys to keep scoring," Pettitte said, "but it was a long inning."
Pettitte had to get up a couple of times to play catch and keep warm while the scoring merry go-round was in full spin. The Yankees sent 15 batters to the plate and scored all their runs during the third inning, their most prolific punch since getting 13 runs in the eighth against Tampa Bay on June 21, 2005.
"It's baseball. It's the only way to describe it," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, shaking his head. "Sometimes it doesn't make sense."
Gardner's slam knocked Blue Jays ace Ricky Romero from the game after 2 2-3 innings, the shortest start of his career. He allowed eight of the 11 runs, the most given up by Toronto in an inning since Kansas City also scored 11 times in the seventh on Aug. 6, 1979.
"It was just a bad inning," Romero said. "In fact, a bad day for me."
NEW YORK -- Andy Pettitte kept ducking down the dugout tunnel between innings Saturday, trying to find some air conditioning on a steamy summer afternoon.
When he headed inside during the third inning, he might as well have taken a nap.
Brett Gardner hit his first career grand slam and Alex Rodriguez drove in four more runs during the Yankees' biggest offensive outburst in five years, which took 37 minutes and carried New York to an 11-3 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.
"You want your guys to keep scoring," Pettitte said, "but it was a long inning."
Pettitte had to get up a couple of times to play catch and keep warm while the scoring merry go-round was in full spin. The Yankees sent 15 batters to the plate and scored all their runs during the third inning, their most prolific punch since getting 13 runs in the eighth against Tampa Bay on June 21, 2005.
"It's baseball. It's the only way to describe it," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, shaking his head. "Sometimes it doesn't make sense."
Gardner's slam knocked Blue Jays ace Ricky Romero from the game after 2 2-3 innings, the shortest start of his career. He allowed eight of the 11 runs, the most given up by Toronto in an inning since Kansas City also scored 11 times in the seventh on Aug. 6, 1979.
"It was just a bad inning," Romero said. "In fact, a bad day for me."