Four HRs carry Yankees past Rays

Jun 9, 2009 1 min read

Andy Pettitte recovered from two wild outings, Johnny Damon hit a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning and the New York Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 Monday night.

Mark Teixeira, Nick Swisher and Derek Jeter also homered for the Yankees, who got all their runs on long balls as Andy Sonnanstine allowed a career-high four. Tampa Bay’s Gabe Kapler hit his first home run of the season.

There have been 105 homers in 29 games at the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium, a sharp increase from the 160 last season at the original Yankee Stadium. It is the 10th five-homer game at the new ballpark.