Then he hit an inside-the-park home run to push the Yanks over the Twins in what is starting to look like a big momentum building game for the good guys.
(from The Daily News)
Brett Gardner expected to have the night off Friday night. After spending his morning reading books and mingling with ailing children at New York Presbyterian Children's Hospital in Manhattan, Gardner figured he'd have a good seat on the bench for Alex Rodriguez's first game at the new Yankee Stadium. But after Johnny Damon got ejected from the game for arguing a called third strike in the third inning, Gardner was pressed into service. And just as he came up big for the young patients at the hospital earlier in the day, he also came up big for the Yankees last night in their 5-4 win over the Twins. READ MORE
