Oakland Athletics at New York Yankees

The lineup for todays game has been posted and here it is: Jeter(ss) Damon(lf) Teixera(1b) Posada(c) Cano(2b) Swisher(rf) Matsui(dh) Ransom(3b) Gardner(cf) Some notes courtesy of Peter Abraham: The Yankees are batting 125 with runners in scoring position at home so far this year. Brian Bruney has retired 20 straight batters, his last seven outings 6.2 perfect innings striking out twelve. Big Tex the last three games is three for nine with two homeruns, four rbis and three walks. I say that cortisone shot has seemed to help him. He needs four more hits for one thousand in his career. The Yankees have homered in seven straight games. Today is Johnny Damons one thousandth career game and tomorrow is Derek Jeters. The Athletics are 2-5 with a 202 batting average against lefties this year.