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NEW YORK (AP) -- The listless New York Yankees needed a spark and Derek Jeter delivered.
Jeter hit a sixth-inning homer, Tino Martinez added a solo shot
two outs later and four pitchers combined for the shutout as New
York beat the Minnesota Twins 2-0 Wednesday for only its second
victory in six games.
|  | | Andy Pettitte went five innings, throwing 76 pitches, in his first game since coming off the disabled list. |
Jeter drove a 2-2 pitch from Joe Mays (0-3) into the right-field
seats for his third homer of the season.
"I've been having good at-bats the last few days. You don't
necessarily look at the results," Jeter said. "You always think
you're going to be successful every time in those situations but
it's not going to happen every time."
It was New York's first extra-base hit of the three-game series,
a span of 23 innings.
"It was a changeup, a low changeup," said Mays, who shut down
the Yankees on two hits over the first five innings, "and I was
really impressed by that home run. He really had a good swing at
it."
Martinez's homer, also his third, went into the right-field
bleachers.
Yankees manager Joe Torre said he was pleased with Jeter's
hitting approach. "When he's hitting the other way is when he's
hitting good," Torre said.
Jeff Nelson (4-0), the second Yankees pitcher, pitched 1 2/3
innings and earned the win in relief of Andy Pettitte, who had been
on the disabled list since April 13 with a mild back strain.
Pettitte went five innings in his second start of the season.
Nelson took over in the sixth, Mike Stanton followed by retiring
all four Twins he faced, and Mariano Rivera earned his seventh save
with a one-hit ninth.
"Pitching allowed us to (win)," Torre said. "We were able to
play our game today, keep the game close and come out of that
bullpen and shut people down."
Pettitte, activated from the DL before the game, allowed three
hits, walked one and struck out four.
He retired the first eight Twins before Jason Maxwell singled
with two out in the third and Cristian Guzman reached safely on
Scott Brosius's fielding error at third. But Pettitte got Denny
Hocking to hit into an inning-ending force out.
Minnesota threatened again in the fifth when Pettitte walked
Matt LeCroy leading off, and Corey Koskie followed with a single.
But Torii Hunter hit into a double play and Maxwell struck out.
Mays gave up 5 hits in 6 1/3 innings, walking three and striking
out three. He held the Yankees hitless into the fourth, when
Martinez and Jorge Posada singled with two outs. But Mays got out
of the jam by striking out Shane Spencer.
Game notes
Yankees right fielder Paul O'Neill left the game after the
second inning with blurred vision in his right eye. "We don't know
(what the problem is)," Torre said. "He (O'Neill) said he felt it
coming in today, a little double vision. Before the game, he said
it cleared up and then it came back on him." ... Matt Lawton
extended his career-high hitting streak to 13 games with a
fourth-inning single. ... Brosius' seventh-inning double was his
first hit of the season. The game was his second since coming off
the disabled list, where he had been since opening day.
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