Finally the Yankees pulled up their socks and made it to .500 for the first in three weeks, this season. It has been a grueling time for the Yanks who managed to take their first road series in more than month, proving their exceptional talents were not going to waste.
This win has proven that the New York Yankees are back after having a terrible first half season. Tampa Bay was in for a shock if they thought they would swim by the Yankees, who managed to beat them 7-6 on Sunday. Derek Jeter was able to hit a two run homer and helped the Yankees take the win over the Devil Rays.
With this win the New York Yankees managed to set themselves nine games behind the Boston Red Sox, which is the first time for the Yanks to be behind their rivals in single digits since June 19th. In front of a historic sellout crowd of 36, 048, which gave the Devil Rays their first consecutive sellout in the franchise history, the Yankees managed to rise above their previous poor efforts to make it to .500.