Wang notches 17th win as Yanks stop skid

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NEW YORK (AP) - Chien-Ming Wang has become the New York Yankees' skid stopper.

Wang smothered Seattle to get his 17th win, and Jorge Posada homered twice as the Yankees' slumbering offense woke up in a 12-3 victory over the Mariners on Tuesday night.
Alex Rodriguez and Bobby Abreu also homered, and Posada, Abreu and Robinson Cano had four hits each for New York, which boosted its AL wild-card lead to two games over the Mariners and 3 1/2 over Detroit. Abreu was in a 2-for-15 slump coming in and Cano was in a 2-for-16 slide.

It was a close game for most of the night, with Hideki Matsui throwing out Adrian Beltre at the plate in the fifth to preserve a 1-0 lead. New York, struggling to regain consistency in the season's final weeks, had 20 hits and busted open the game with three runs in the sixth and seven more in the seventh, taking an 11-1 lead.

Seattle lost for the 10th time in 11 games and was ensured of leaving town trailing the Yankees when the three-game series concludes Wednesday.

Wang (17-6) allowed one run and five hits in 7 1-3 innings, tying Boston's Josh Beckett for the major league lead in wins. He left after just 86 pitches and it was unclear whether Wang came out due to an injury.

Inducing inning-ending, double-play grounders in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, Wang improved to 8-2 when pitching following Yankees' losses this season, winning his last six starts in that situation. He is 6-0 against the Mariners in his career.

Beltre ended Wang's shutout bid with a seventh-inning homer - only the second by a right-handed hitter against Wang this year and the first Wang allowed to a right-hander at Yankee Stadium since Florida's Miguel Olivo connected on June 23 last year.

New York's offense cooled in losing three of four to Tampa Bay and Seattle following a three-game sweep of Boston. But Posada put the Yankees ahead with a leadoff homer in the second off Horacio Ramirez (8-5), and Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 46th homer to make it 2-0 in the sixth, a drive that landed about seven rows into the hard-to-reach upper deck in left field.

A-Rod had a scare in the seventh, when he slid into Beltre and the third baseman toppled onto his leg, causing Rodriguez to grimace in pain.

Cano chased Ramirez with an RBI single in the sixth, and Wilson Betemit made it 4-0 with a run-scoring single against Eric O'Flaherty that went off the glove of shortstop Yunieksy Betancourt. Kenji Johjima was called for catcher's interference on Matsui, putting two on with one out.

Wang had trouble in the middle innings. He walked Beltre and Ben Broussard leading off the fifth, then started Johjima off with a ball, prompting a visit from pitching coach Ron Guidry. Johjima grounded a single to left, just beyond the reach of shortstop Derek Jeter, and Matsui made a one-hop throw to the plate just to the first-base side. Posada reached across to apply the tag, and Jose Guillen grounded into a double play on the next pitch.

After Ichiro Suzuki and Jose Vidro singled with one out in the sixth, Guillen's bat broke as he hit a sharp one-hopper to Cano at second, starting another inning-ending double play.

Abreu homered in the seventh off Brandon Morrow.

SURPRISE SURPRISE THE YANKS ARE BACK IN IT AFTER LOOKING HORRIBLE TO START THE SEASON REMEMBER I SAID THEY COULD DO IT AND THE GIANTS COULDNT THATS WHY THEY ARE THE YANKEES AND YOU CANT NEVER COUNT THEM OUT WHEN THEIR IS HELLA GAMES LEFT TO BE PLAYED
 
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hey anyting is possible and yea they are still fighting but they are playin way better ball then when the season first started and people were sayin they wouldnt be in the hunt for a playoff berth
 
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you cant count them out cuz they have an allstar lineup, they still arent gonna make the playoffs and gay-rod is gonna bounce on them when there season ends. Seattle is gonna take the wild card watch. its pathetic how much money they have spent on all these players and they cant even win there division.
 
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T-Rip said:
you cant count them out cuz they have an allstar lineup, they still arent gonna make the playoffs and gay-rod is gonna bounce on them when there season ends. Seattle is gonna take the wild card watch. its pathetic how much money they have spent on all these players and they cant even win there division.
What makes you so sure? Seattle has lost 10 of their last 11 games!!!!We play Yankees one more time tonight and if we win, we are STILL a game behind them. THEN, we go into Detroit TOMORROW for a 3 game series. If we lose all of THOSE games, we are now 1/2 game ahead of THEM...and thats not including what the Yankees might do in the process.

NO ONE is guranteed that WC spot right now....but the M's are having a monumental BREAK DOWN at the moment...
 

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T-Rip said:
you cant count them out cuz they have an allstar lineup, they still arent gonna make the playoffs and gay-rod is gonna bounce on them when there season ends. Seattle is gonna take the wild card watch. its pathetic how much money they have spent on all these players and they cant even win there division.

In the grand scheme of baseball, the team winning the AL East spends ALOT more money those most other teams do as well. They just play second fiddle to the Yankees when it comes down to how it is reported