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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sean Bergman was quick to give credit to his defense. But Minnesota manager Tom Kelly thought Bergman deserved the accolades for the Twins winning for the seventh time in eight
games.
|  | | Sean Bergman lasted 6 1/3 innings and got his second win of the season (2-0). |
"I walked too many people today (but) the defense played great behind me," Bergman said after the Twins beat the New York Yankees, 6-1 Tuesday night.
Bergman (2-0) allowed only one run, four hits and six hits in 6
1/3 innings.
"Bergman pitched his best game of the year for us," Kelly
said. "He kept the ball down. He had a good breaking ball and a
good sinker."
Bergman walked Scott Brosius with one out in the seventh and
then gave up a single to Wilson Delgado.
Travis Miller came in and gave up a pinch-hit single to Jim
Leyritz, loading the bases, and a sacrifice fly to Derek Jeter. But
that was all the Yankees would get as they lost for the fourth time
in five games.
New York has scored only nine runs in the four losses.
"I sense a little frustration on the offensive part but that
doesn't concern me," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "I think
everybody's feeling a little extra pressure to do it themselves."
Jacque Jones, who lost a fly ball in the sun Monday that almost cost the Twins the opener of the series, drove in two runs and Ron
Coomer also had two RBI.
Todd Walker and Cristian Guzman gave the Twins a 2-0 lead in the
third inning with back-to-back homers off Ramiro Mendoza (2-2).
"Something kept it fair," Walker said of his second homer of
the year.
Jones made it 3-0 with an RBI single in the fourth, scoring Marcus Jensen who had doubled with two out.
Minnesota added two more runs in the sixth on Jones's RBI single
that knocked out Mendoza and Torii Hunter's RBI groundout.
Mendoza, making only his third start of the season, allowed five
runs on and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.
"My sinker was working good. I thought I threw pretty well
today," he said.
Coomer's RBI single in the seventh gave the Twins an insurance
run.
Game notes
Minnesota's Matt Lawton extended his career-high hitting
streak to 12 games with a first-inning single. ... Twins are only
7-6 when they score the game's first run. ... Derek Jeter has been
the Yankees only starting No. 2 hitter this season having started
all 19 games batting second. ... Mendoza had allowed only one homer
in his first four games before giving up two in the third. ...
Brosius was 0-for-3 with a walk in his first game since opening day
when he was sidelined with a rib cage injury. Alfonso Soriano was
sent down to Triple-A Columbus to make room for Brosius.
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