Matsui, Posada HRs power Yankees to win (AP)

Courtesy Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Tue, 08/11/2009 - 20:28

New York Yankees Hideki Matsui(notes) reacts as he flies out with Robinson Cano(notes) at first for the third out in the fifth inning of the Yankees baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 in New York.

Hideki Matsui and Jorge Posada hit back-to-back homers leading off the eighth inning and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5 on Tuesday night for their eighth win in nine games.

Matsui hit a 3-2 pitch from Jesse Carlson (1-5) deep to right to tie it at 4 and Posada followed with an opposite-field drive that just got over the glove of leaping right fielder Joe Inglett.



 

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