OPENING DAY WAS A GEM….
Welcome home Yankees!!
It was another Opening Day for the books at Yankee Stadium, as fans got to welcome the players, say goodbye to a legend and watch the Bombers beat the Angels 5-0.
After a terrible first start against the Rays, pitcher Hiroki Kuroda took to the hill and he was brilliant.
Kuroda didn’t allow a run to score, pitching shutout ball into the ninth inning. He gave up five hits, walked two, struck out six and got a well-deserved, roaring ovation from Yankee fans.
Kuroda got insurance from the Yankee bats early, as Nick Swisher hit a three-run scoring double off Ervin Santana in the first inning. Than A-rod tacked on another run with a bomb to center field in the third inning, the 660th of his career; and Granderson went deep in the fifth, his second on the season.
Yankee fans could not have asked for a nicer day, or a more perfect way to welcome baseball back in the Bronx.
Since getting swept by the Rays, the Yankees are on a four-game winning streak and hope to make it five today when Phil Hughes takes the mound vs. Angles CJ Wilson.
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