Yankees 18, Rangers 7: Giambi Gives Yanks Jolts They Needed

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Bronx Banter: The 'Stache Rides Again
Published 7/3/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... of Doom. It was 3-1 Rangers in the third inning when the Big G put the Yanks ahead with an upper tank grand slam; he came through again in the seventh with a two-run double that put the Yankees up 8-7 after Ponson, left in too long, ran out of luck and coughed up a 6-3 lead. That seventh inning was decisive, a nine-run explosion made possible by Texas s poor bullpen and exacerbated by Ron Washington s curious management choices. While Edwar Ramirez had taken over for Ponson and pitched two shutdown innings, the unfortunate Warner Madrigal (not a typo) made his ...