After Mark Teixeira ended a personal-worst streak of 95 at-bats without a home run July 9, he shrugged off the skid's significance, saying his home runs typically come "in bunches."
The moonshot he hit Friday night might be the kind of blast to get him going again.
With a steady rain just starting to fall in the seventh, Teixeira clobbered Joel Zumaya's 3-and-1 pitch into the second deck in right for a three-run homer, putting the Yankees ahead for good in a 5-3 victory at the Stadium. The home run, an elliptical shot deep into the dark sky, turned a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead. It was the Yankees' 26th comeback victory of the season.
Teixeira, who has 22 home runs and 66 RBIs, said of the 3-and-1 pitch: "I'm looking for a pitch to pull because if I pull the ball, it gets a guy in, gets the runner over, there's no outs at the time. Looking for something middle of the plate, maybe a little in, and that's where he threw it." Continue
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