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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Yankees 3, Texas 2
When: 1:05 PM ET, Thursday, June 16, 2011
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Temperature: 82°
Umpires: Home - Mike Everitt, 1B - Chris Guccione, 2B - Cory Blaser, 3B - Mike Winters
Attendance: 47487

Brett Gardner grounded a walk-off single into right field with one out in the 12th inning and the New York Yankees completed a three-game sweep of the visiting Texas Rangers with a 3-2 win on Thursday afternoon.

Gardner's hit off Michael Kirkman (1-1) plated Curtis Granderson and made a winner out of Cory Wade (1-0), who pitched two innings to help send Texas to its season-worst fifth consecutive defeat.

The Yankees got a good effort from journeyman Brian Gordon, who allowed two runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings in his first major league start. He had just three other appearances - all in relief - in 2008 with Texas.

Rangers starter C.J. Wilson went eight strong innings and gave up two runs on seven hits. He had his fifth double-digit strikeout game of the season, fanning 10.

After Russell Martin gave New York an RBI single in the second, the Rangers went ahead on Ian Kinsler's two-run double in the fifth. Jorge Posada's RBI double tied it at 2-2 an inning later.

New York closer Mariano Rivera made his 1,006th career appearance to move into 13th place on baseball's all-time list.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Texas   NY Yankees
C.J. Wilson Player Brian Gordon
No Decision W/L No Decision
8.0 IP 5.1
10 Strikeouts 3
7 Hits 7
2.25 ERA 3.38
Hitting
Texas   NY Yankees
Michael Young Player Curtis Granderson
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.400 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Texas 9 0 11 .214 21 6 2 4 0 1
NY Yankees 11 0 12 .275 29 12 3 6 0 0