It looks like there is no stopping the New York Yankees, who took down the Kansas City Royals 9-2 on Monday night. Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) was at it again hitting a one run scoring single which cultivate him to be the first player to reach 100 RBI’s this season and the first Major League player since 1999 when Manny Ramirez did to reach that mark in fewer than one hundred team games.
It seems it was a career making day as Roger Clemens rose to the occasion and took his three hundred and fifty first career game. The rocket as Clemens is called because of his pitching only gave up two runs and four hits in seven innings, and managed to walking none and striking out three to raise his total to 4,641, which is second to Nolan Ryan on the career list. He is now 3-4 and lowered his ERA to 3.72.
Other notable players included Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, and Jorge Posada who helped the Yankees take the game from Kansas by making two runs each. The New York Yankees have won nine of their eleven games, as well as moved six games over .500 for the first time this season and have pulled within five and a half games over the American League leader, Cleveland.