The New York Yankees win their sixth straight

The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday afternoon. The final score was 5-4 and the game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Andy Pettitte started and was shaky, the bullpen was good. Lyle Overbay and Eduardo Nunez in his return led the Yankees offense.

Pettitte pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up nine hits and four runs with three of them being earned. He walked none and struck out four. Pettitte won his sixth game of the season, Shawn Kelley pitched 1/3 of an inning and struck out one, David Robertson pitched an inning giving up a hit and struck out one and Mariano Rivera pitched an inning giving up a hit and struck out one. Rivera saved his 29th game of the season.

Ichiro Suzuki had a hit and an RBI, Robinson Cano had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Travis Hafner drew a walk. Zoilo Almonte had a hit, Overbay had three hits and Luis Cruz had a hit and an RBI. Nunez had two hits and two RBI, Chris Stewart had a hit and drew two walks and the Yankees were 5-11 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Pettitte committed an error.

Chris Tillman pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up ten hits and five runs with two walks and three strikeouts. Brian Matusz pitched an inning giving up a walk and struck out one and Kevin Gausman pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a walk and striking out one.

Manny Machado had a hit, Adam Jones had two hits and Chris Davis had a hit and two RBI. Brian Roberts had a hit, J.J. Hardy had a hit and Nick Reimold had a hit. Alexi Casilla had two hits and an RBI, Flaherty had a hit and Taylor Teagarden had a hit and an RBI. Casilla, Machado and Hardy each hit a double. Davis hit a homerun and the Orioles were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. Casilla had a stolen base and Teagarden was caught stealing and had a passed ball. Reimold had an outfield assist.

In the first Davis hit a two run homerun to give the Orioles a 2-0 lead. Casilla hit an RBI double in the second to extend the Baltimore lead to 3-0. In the second Cruz hit an RBI single and Nunez hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-2. Teagarden hit an RBI single in the fourth to make it a 4-2 game. In the bottom of the fifth Suzuki hit an RBI single and Cano hit an RBI single to tie the game at four. Nunez hit an RBI single in the sixth to make it a 5-4 game. The final score was 5-4 Yankees.

The Yankees won their sixth straight and improved their record to 48-39. The Orioles record fell to 48-40. The two teams will play on Sunday afternoon with the Yankees looking for the three game sweep.