Gardner delivers in the 13th

Yankees who losted in fridays game after an hour and half rain delay bounced back  on Saturday to even the series up with a 3-2 victory on the rookies Brett Gardner second career walk off single as Yankees took game 2 of the series.

Royals got on top early again this time off Sir Sidney Ponsonh who has been very solid in his last 3-4 outtings had another quaility start today. In the second the Royals drew first blood when Alex Gordon slugged his 14th homer of the season to left field to give the KC Royals a 1-0 lead.

With both pitchers dueling each other thur 5 innings the Royals tacted on their 1-0 lead to give them a 2 run lead in the 6th. mark Teahen doubled to begin the frame then  was out a tthird on a error that allowed to Jose Guillen to reach with 1 out. Sidney walked Ross Gload and Alex Gordon back to back then Guillen scored on a  sac fly by German to give Royals the 2-0 lead

Yanks roared back down 2-0 hole by scoring 2 to tie things up. Alex Rodriguez opened the Yankees half of 7th off the inning with an 2 base error to put the Yanks in rally mode. jason Giambi who has rly been strugglnig walked to put runners at first and second. Xavier Nady grounded into big rally killing double play but Robinson Cano slashed a 3-1 pitch into the gap to score Rodriguez on a RBI  triple. Robinson Cano scored the tying run on a wild pitch to tie game up

Rivera was awesome today he pitched 2 scoreless innings in a 2-2 tie that allowed Yankees \a big chance of winning a much needed game. Jeff Fulchino struck out Xaiver Nady robinson Cano then pounded a single to start the game ending rally. Pudge grounded out but moved Cano the winning run into scoring posistion and scored on a 3-2 RBI single b yGardner to give the Yannks a much needed victory 3-2 Yanks in 13.

Notes:
After a horrible game for Gardner in his 2nd stint he had an career game pouding 3 hits including the game winning single that won a much needed game for the Yanks.

Finale will be at 1:05 on Yes and ECBS 880 and there will be no recap or preview as I will be gone for the day going to Baltimore. I will be back with some pics of Camden Yards and pics from the day in Baltimore

Mussina goes for his 16th win agaIn and he will be matched up with Brian Bannister who is 7-11 this season.

Byrd makes his debute tonight for Boston as he will go for  win against the third place Blue Jays. Tampa will play there 2nd game of the series against the Texas Rangers beggining around 8:05 EST. yanks are now 10 games out of first depending on Rays score and 6.5 games out of wild card depending on Sox score