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The Yankees announced today that they’ve signed top draft pick Dante Bichette Jr. For at least the first few years, a draft class is usually defined by its highest pick, and that means Bichette will begin to define the newest group of Yankees. From his draft-day conference call, this is Bichette in his own words:

Can you describe yourself as a player?
“I’m just getting out of high school. I think my dad definitely taught me from a young age to hit as a big leaguer would, behave myself on the field as a big leaguer would and have the strike zone as important as a big leaguer would. I think I’m definitely ahead of the average high school hitter as far as my approach, but there’s always room to improve and I’m going to have to improve and make adjustments the best I can.”

Similar to Dante Bichette Sr.?
“Honestly, I think hitting-wise, I think I’m pretty much the same person. I’m going to hit for average, and I’ll throw in a few power numbers hopefully. We have the same strengths and the same weaknesses. It’s kind of funny, when we watch highlight clips, it’s the same thing going on. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn from him.”

Believe you can stay at third base?
“I know I’m going to have to work my butt off to stay at third base, but I’m going to do everything I can. I’ll try to stay agile, cross train with tennis or something and stay on my toes… Third base is ideal, but the outfield is also a great position.”

Plans to go to college?
“I am committed to go to Georgia, but hopefully we’ll see here that I can pretty rapidly come to a conclusion with the Yankees, and I’d love to be able to start my professional career as soon as possible… I think we’ll be able to reach a conclusion pretty quickly and get out there.”

Where were you when you found out?
“Before the draft I was excited, and I knew that’s where I wanted to go was to New York, and I was hoping I would get to it. I was at my house with my family and friends — only a few closer friends though — and as soon as it happened we were all crazy excited. It couldn’t have been any better.”

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And here’s the official release from the Yankees.

The New York Yankees today announced they have signed third baseman Dante Bichette Jr., the organization’s first selection (51st pick overall in Compensation Round A) in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.

Bichette, listed at 6-foot-1, 215 pounds out of Orangewood Christian High School in Maitland, Fla., batted a team-high .640 (55-for-86) with 58 runs 14 doubles, 10 home runs and 40 RBI in 30 games as a senior in 2011, as Orangewood Christian fell in the Florida Class-2A state finals. He was named the “All-Central Florida Baseball Player of the Year” by the Orlando Sentinel in each of the last two seasons. Following his junior year, he was selected as an Under Armour “All-American” and named his team’s most valuable player.

He is the son of former Major Leaguer Dante Bichette, who played in 1,704 career games across parts of 14 seasons with California, Milwaukee, Colorado, Cincinnati and Boston, batting .299 with 274 home runs.

“We were excited to be able to draft Dante and are even more excited to get him signed,” said Damon Oppenheimer, Yankees Vice President of Amateur Scouting. “Coming to an agreement this quickly will allow Dante to get a full season under his belt in 2011, and gets him ahead of the curve in many ways.”

The right-handed batter was ranked by Baseball America as the 15th-best overall player out of the state of Florida in this year’s draft. In 2005, Bichette participated in the Little League World Series with his Maitland, Fla. team.

Bichette has reported to Tampa and will join the Gulf Coast League Yankees when their season begins on Monday.

The L.A. Times recently published a Q&A of sorts with Pete Rose. A lot of it centered on Buster Posey’s injury and the role of steroids in baseball, but there was also this bit about Derek Jeter’s pursuit of 3,000 hits and possibly Rose’s hits record.

On Jeter, 36, and his 2,994 hits, which is slightly ahead of the pace Rose set, though Rose played until he was 45:

“It’s like this. In order to get 3,000 hits, you have to be consistent, which Jeter is. If Jeter beat my record, I’d be a happy guy. He’s the type of player you’d want to break my record. He’s a winner, plays all the time, plays hurt, can hit a baseball, world champion many, many times over. . . . You take your hat off to him.

“If he ever broke my record, I’d be the first one to congratulate him. It’d be tough. I pretty much dominated until I was 37 years old, and it’s tough to do that.”

Associated Press photo

The Yankees won six of seven coming into this afternoon’s game at Wrigley. They’d scored at least nine runs in four of those six wins. They seemed ready to feast on a soft-tossing guy like Doug Davis and a below .500 team like the Cubs.

Obviously that didn’t happen.

“Velocity is not the most important thing,” Joe Girardi said. “Location is the most important thing in this game. And movement. And that’s what (Davis) did today, and that’s what Freddy does. They don’t beat themselves usually. They don’t necessarily walk people. They’re able to hold runners. They’re able to do a lot of things, and you can light up the radar gun and still get lit up.”

It’s a fine line for pitchers like Davis and the Yankees own starter, Freddy Garcia. Both have fastballs in the 80s, and the lean heavily on an assortment of offspeed pitches. More than one Yankees hitter said facing Davis was like facing a knuckleballer.

“It’s very similar in that there are no patterns, and you don’t really know where the ball is going to go,” Mark Teixeira said. “He threw me some changeups that went up and away today. The first seven pitches he threw me were all balls, not because he was pitching around me, but because his ball moves everywhere. If he doesn’t know where it’s going sometimes, the hitter’s not going to know where it’s going. He pitched well, kept the ball on the corners and kept us off-balance.”

Davis hadn’t won a game since May of last year, and the Yankees were obviously frustrated by a few calls, but there’s a reason a guy like Davis sticks in the big leagues through 13 seasons and nearly 300 starts: If he’s throwing strikes and mixing his pitches, he has a chance. He’s a lesser, left-handed version of Garcia. Today, Davis was the better of the two.

“I look for the fastball,” Nick Swisher said. “Whatever he flops up there, I’m really trying to sit on that fastball. My first at-bat, he went fastball up, breaking ball, breaking ball. My second at-bat, he went fastball, changeup, changeup, so he’s really just changing it here and there. That’s how you’re supposed to pitch so guys don’t fall into rhythms or trends. We just didn’t do a very good job putting the bat on the ball today.”

Here’s Alex Rodriguez talking mostly about Davis and the Yankees silent offense.

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• The Yankees bullpen was active by the third inning, but it turned out, Garcia had already gotten his day turned around. “They were sitting on my slider and breaking pitches,” he said. “So in the second inning, I started throwing my sinker and felt pretty good.”

• Four of the first three Cubs reached base this afternoon, then Garcia allowed three straight hits to start the third inning. With two on and no outs in the third, Garcia started a run in which he retired 14 of the last 15 batters he faced.

• This was Garcia’s first career loss against the Cubs, snapping a four-game winning streak. he is 4-1 with a 1.80 ERA in seven starts against the Cubs. “I always want to win,” he said. “I was surprised with Davis. We didn’t score any runs, but that’s part of the game. Days like this happen.”

• One last Garcia note: Seven innings today moved him beyond 2,000 innings for his career. He’s thrown 2,001.2 innings.

• Swisher was the one Yankee who most showed his frustration with some of the called strikes for Davis. “When you have a guy on the mound that’s not throwing 95, he gets some more calls because the umpire can see the ball better,” Swisher said. “It’s one of those games that kind of baffles you a little bit. We’ll forget about this and get ready for tomorrow.”

• Swisher said he thought his eighth-inning double — the one that chased Davis from the game — was a home run off the bat. “I hit that ball pretty good,” he said. “As soon as I hit it, I thought it was gone. I’ll take a double; I’m cool with that. As long as it finds some grass, I’m cool.”

• Alex Rodriguez’s eighth-inning strikeout against Carlos Marmol was obviously a pivotal moment. He was the tying run with Teixeira at first base. The first four pitches of the at-bat were sliders, and strike three came on a fastball. “It’s funky,” Rodriguez said of Marmol’s slider. “First time I faced him I believe. He threw two good pitches. Both strikes were in the inning half, probably black or better. Probably foul balls if I swing, and he still had the good fastball in the mid-90s. He’s a guy you probably feel a little bit more comfortable the more you face him four or five times.”

• The Cubs hot-shot young shortstop, Starlin Castro, had a big day with two doubles. He’s hitting .345 with 11 doubles and five triples at home this season, and he’s batting .405 in his past nine games.

• The Yankees were hitless until Robinson Cano singled with two outs in the fourth. He has reached base in all 22 of the Yankees day games this season.

• Another Cano note: He’s hitting .322 against lefties and .273 against right-handers.

• Eduardo Nunez in his past four games: .357 with two runs, two walks, a home run and two RBI.

• There was a weird on-field delay in the third inning. Girardi said it was because of a light just beyond a camera booth in center field. Girardi couldn’t see it from the bench, but it was visible from the plate. Girardi said it looked like a floodlight, maybe one that had been turned on by a building on the other side of the street.

• Teixeira on playing in Wrigley: “As soon as you walk in and see the ivy, you know exactly where you are. It’s one of those special places in baseball.”

• Rodriguez gets the final word today: “It’s definitely a great stadium, great atmosphere and great crowd. It was a perfect day — for the Cubs.”

Associated Press photos, including a cool one of Gardner making a leaping catch in the ivy

During a weekly radio appearance today, Peter Gammons accused the Yankees of tampering with Red Sox starter Andrew Miller. Gammons said “a lot of teams” tried to get Miller to opt out of his minor league deal before the Red Sox had a chance to put him in their rotation.

Brian Cashman responded with a two-word text message: “Not true,” he said.

Here’s Gammons’ comment:

“I know this: There were a lot of teams that tampered and tried to get him to do the opt-out, including the New York Yankees. A lot of teams wanted him to opt out on Wednesday. Because of his trust for the Red Sox and how much they’ve invested in him — not in terms of money but in terms of effort to just get his delivery back and be patient with him, he stayed. In some ways, their fortunate. Because I think he could have gotten twice as much money if he had left.”

YANKEES (39-28)
Nick Swisher RF
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Eduardo Nunez SS
Brett Gardner LF
Freddy Garcia RHP

RHP Freddy Garcia (5-5, 3.60)
Garcia vs. Cubs

CUBS (28-40)
Kosuke Fukudome RF
Starlin Castro SS
Blake DeWitt 2B
Aramis Ramirez 3B
Carlos Pena 1B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Tony Campana CF
Koyie Hill C
Doug Davis LHP

LHP Doug Davis (0-5, 5.90)
Davis vs. Yankees

TIME/TV: 2:20 p.m., YES Network and MLB Network

WEATHER: Wind blowing in from center field. Little bit cloud, but doesn’t really look like rain. Warm, but certainly not hot.

UMPIRES: HP Greg Gibson, 1B Sam Holbrook, 2B Todd Tichenor, 3B Gerry Davis

ROBINSON CAN: According to Elias, Robinson Cano has reached base safely in each of the Yankees 21 day games this season. The Yankees are a Major League best 18-3 in day games this season, and Elias says the Yankees are the first Major League team since 1958 to win 18 of their first 21 day games.

DISABLED: The Yankees have 10 players on the disable list, the most in the Majors. All year they’ve put 13 players on the DL, which is tied with the Dodgers and Twins for a Major League high. They had 11 players go on the DL all of last season.

ON THIS DATE: On June 17, 1978, Ron Guidry struck out 18 Angels in a four-hit shutout, setting a franchise record and an American League single-game record for strikeouts by a left-hander.

UPDATE, 3:01 p.m.: Not sure what’s causing the delay right now. There’s a lot of attention focused toward the outfield, maybe into the stands. No announcement or anything. If you’re watching on TV, you might know more than we do in the press box.

UPDATE, 3:23 p.m.: Garcia obviously can be effective, but he seems to naturally walk a pretty fine line. After three straight hits — and a run — to open the third inning, Garcia got out of the inning with three quick outs. It’s 3-0 Cubs. There’s already been some activity in the Yankees bullpen.

UPDATE, 3:46 p.m.: Two well-executed sac bunts for Freddy Garcia today. He’s done his job offensively.

UPDATE, 4:05 p.m.: This Yankees lineup isn’t making much noise against Davis. Two hits so far. Still trailing 3-0.

UPDATE, 4:11 p.m.: The Yankees completely botched the bunt, but Nunez made a nice play to salvage the pitchout and the caught stealing. It’s still 3-0 Cubs after six.

UPDATE, 4:32 p.m.: Swisher’s one-out double in the eighth has chased Davis from the game, and he got a well-deserved standing ovation as walked off the field. Here’s Sean Marshall.

Just got back to the press box so I’m going to make these notes quicker than usual.

Wrigley Field did not let me down. This place really does feel like a relic, but in a good way. There are plenty of annoying features — hard to get around, not much room anywhere — but for the most part, it’s a great baseball experience. The ivy looks amazing in person.

A lot of pregame chatter centered on Joe Girardi and Larry Rothschild returning to Wrigley. For the local media, that’s a pretty big story. Both had great things to say about this stadium and this franchise. Girardi said his fondest memories of this place still involve his father bringing him to see games as a kid.

Anyway, some quick notes pregame.

• Despite facing a lefty, Brett Gardner is in the lineup. “He’s a guy that I consider all the time,” Girardi said. In this case, the decision was made easier by the fact that lefties are actually having more success than righties against Doug Davis.

• Also worth noting that Andruw Jones is a career .182 hitter against Davis.

• Girardi said his hope is that Jorge Posada will get one at-bat in every game during this National League road trip. He said he would consider playing Posada at first base for a game, but Mark Teixeira just got a DH day and the Yankees have two off days coming up, so it’s unlikely that he’ll need to give Teixeira a break.

• I think this has already been said, but Girardi said he’s committed to Brian Gordon getting another start. He’ll take the ball Tuesday in Cincinnati.

• A few factors that led the Yankees to give Gordon a start ahead of Hector Noesi: Gordon was on his normal day of rest, Gordon was built up to more pitches, Gordon had great numbers in Triple-A and Girardi likes Noesi as a guy who could pitch key innings out of the bullpen.

• Girardi said his time playing in the National League has helped him managing in the National League. He understood the strategy a little more, and obviously he spent a full season managing the Marlins. The biggest thing, he said, is to be more careful with the bullpen, because it’s possible run out of arms quickly.

• None of the injured Yankees made this trip. They’re all in Tampa going through treatment/rehab. The exception is Rafael Soriano, who will go to Tampa in the next few days. He’s not ready just yet.

• For now, Bartolo Colon and Derek Jeter are getting nothing but treatment. They aren’t ready to start normal baseball activities.

CUBS
Kosuke Fukudome RF
Starlin Castro SS
Blake DeWitt 2B
Aramis Ramirez 3B
Carlos Pena 1B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Tony Campana CF
Koyie Hill C
Doug Davis LHP

Associated Press photo

Nick Swisher RF
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Eduardo Nunez SS
Brett Gardner LF
Freddy Garcia RHP

Like most of the beat writers, I flew to Chicago yesterday. Not sure when everyone else arrived, but I happened to walk into my hotel room right after Brett Gardner drove in the game-winner to wrap up the home stand.  Now the Yankees are heading for back-to-back series in National League parks, and a couple of Cubs had kind things to say about Derek Jeter’s postponed pursuit of 3,000 hits. This weekend series against the Cubs starts with back-to-back day games, so I’m heading to the stadium this morning.

Today
RHP Freddy Garcia (5-5, 3.60)
vs.
LHP Doug Davis (0-5, 5.90)
2:20 p.m., YES Network / MLB Network

Saturday
RHP A.J. Burnett (6-5, 4.09)
vs.
RHP Ryan Dempster (5-5, 5.48)
4:10 p.m. FOX

Sunday
LHP CC Sabathia (8-4, 3.28)
vs.
RHP Randy Wells (1-1, 5.63)
8:05 p.m., ESPN

Brian Gordon drew a crowd for a good while around his locker. This was really his day, the day for which he waited so long.

Yes, the 15-year minor-leaguer had three relief outings with Texas as a September call-up in 2008. But this was a start for the Yankees in Yankee Stadium. The 32-year-old righty got a no-decision in the 3-2, 12-inning win over the Rangers, but he did well, allowing two runs and seven hits in 5 1-3. He used a cutter and a 68-71 mph curve among other pitches. He began going to that slow hook as an out pitch when he was on the mound as a kid. 

“There have been a lot of highs; there have been a lot of lows,” Gordon said. “This has got to be at the top of all the highs. It was a very special day for myself and my family. … Hopefully I can stick around for a little bit.”

He decided on a sort of career change before the 2007 season, feeling he had hit a plateau as an outfielder, although he was a .274 career hitter with 118 homers.

“After 10 years of trying it with no big-league time and bouncing around from organization to organization, it just didn’t seem too promising,” said Gordon, who was born in West Point. “I was starting a family. So I was like, I’m at peace with retirement. But I loved to pitch when I was kid. Let’s give it a shot.”

Now he has earned another start, this one an interleague start in Cincinnati Tuesday night. You know what means? No DH.

“You spend 10 years grinding it out and then you decide to pitch, and now you get your first big-league at-bat,” Gordon said. “I guess that’s the way I like to operate.”

*Jorge Posada extended his hitting streak to nine games by delivering an RBI double as a righty batter. Now he becomes a pinch hitter for the six-game NL trip, unless Mark Teixeira gets a rest from first in one game.  

But Posada is encouraged at the moment: “I feel a lot of things are coming. I’m working counts well and good things are happening.”

*Andruw Jones started in left as usual with a lefty going. But Brett Gardner came on in the ninth and had two singles in extra innings against lefty Michael Kirkman, including the walk-off hit in the 12th.

“I never worry about him against lefties,” Joe Girardi said. “I’m just trying to keep Andruw going.”

*New righty reliever Cory Wade has been great since coming up yesterday, throwing three perfect innings in the two games, including the final two in this one. Russell Martin used to catch him with the Dodgers.  

“He’s probably even better than the last time I saw him,” Martin said. “He reminds me of 2008. He had a great year in 2008. He looks like he’s got his stuff. He’s got command of his changeup, his fastball. He’s the type of guy who can throw any pitch, any count. That’s why he’s tough to hit.”

Hector Noesi, David Robertson, Mariano Rivera and Wade combined to go 6 2-3 scoreless innings, retiring 19 of 22. Yankees relievers haven’t been charged with a run in their last six outings, covering 18 innings.

*The Yankees bounced back well from the Boston sweep, ending the homestand with six wins in seven tries. They are 19-9 since May 17. They are also the first big-league team since 1958 to win 18 of their first 21 day games. The last team to do it? The Yankees, of course. Robinson Cano has been on base in all the day games.

Now it’s on to another day game, Friday in Chicago against the Cubs, the start of 15 straight against the NL.

Yankees lineup

1. Nick Swisher RF
2. Curtis Granderson CF
3. Mark Teixeira 1B
4. Robinson Cano 2B
5. Andruw Jones LF
6. Jorge Posada DH
7. Russell Martin C
8. Eduardo Nunez SS
9. Ramiro Pena 3B
Brian Gordon RHP

Rangers lineup
1. Ian Kinsler 2B
2. Elvis Andrus SS
3. Josh Hamilton LF
4. Michael Young DH
5. Adrian Beltre 3B
6. Mitch Moreland 1B
7. David Murphy RF
8. Taylor Teagarden C
9. Endy Chavez CF
C.J. Wilson LHP

TV/Time: YES/1:08
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, 82 degrees
Umpires: Mike Everitt HP, Chris Guccione 1B, Cory Blaser SS, Mike Winters 3B

Power infield: The Yankees are starting the same infield as last night when all four hit homers, with Teixeira belting two. It was only the second time in franchise history that happened. The last time was 1939.

Brooms out? The Yankees will be in pursuit of their fifth series sweep of the season and first of at least three games at home.

He can hit, too: Brian Gordon began as a minor-league outfielder before switching to the mound for the 2007 season. He had a career .275 average with 219 doubles, 65 triples, 119 homers and 590 RBI in 1,206 games.

Update, 1:11: A catcher who can throw to second base. Francisco Cervelli has been struggling, but Russell Martin is back from his back injury and he just gunned down Elvis Andrus.

Update, 1:12: Gordon gets through his first inning in good shape, hit Andrus with a curve and that was it.

Update, 1:20: The Yankees ran themselves out of their first inning. Swisher singled and was out when he overslid third after Granderson’s single. Then Granderson got caught stealing.

Update, 1:25: Gordon’s Yankees debut will not be a no-hitter. Beltre lines a single to center with one out in the second.

Update, 1:28: Two hits but no runs in the Texas second.

Update, 1:37: Martin makes his presence felt again, two-out RBI single to center, 1-0.

Update, 1:46: Gordon has the Rangers off-balance so far. He got Ian Kinsler swinging at a 68 mph curve here in the third. It’s 1-0 heading for the last of the third.

Update, 1:59: First and second with no outs and second and third with one out and the Yankees don’t score.

Update, 2:09: The Rangers have two singles in the fourth, both on 69 mph curves. First and third, two outs.

Update, 2:11: Nice play by Teixeira on a grounder. Side retired. Gordon has given up no runs and four singles through four.

Update, 2:18: 1-0, end of four.

Update, 2:24: Suddenly, we’re tied. Walk, infield hit, RBI double by Ian Kinsler. So it’s second and third, no outs.

Update, 2:27: Bases loaded, one out for the very dangerous Michael Young.

Update, 2:30: 71 mph curve and Young pops it up to Cano. Two outs, Beltre up.

Update, 2:34: Beltre was down 0-2, fouled off two pitches, and then Gordon hit him with a 68 mph curve in the left elbow area to force in the go-ahead run.

Update, 2:35: Gordon gets out of the jam now, leaving the bases loaded after Mitch Moreland flies to center. So it’s 2-1 going to the last of the fifth.

Update, 2:44: 2-1 heading for the sixth. Hector Noesi is warming in the bullpen.

Update, 2:51: Gordon’s day is over after a one-out single. Noesi is on. Gordon walked off to a nice ovation. So far he’s charged with two runs and seven hits in 5 1-3. The Yankees couldn’t have asked for much more from a 32-year-old journeyman making his first major-league start.

Update, 2:56: Noesi gets a fly ball and a grounder. So we head for the last of the sixth.

Update, 3:04: Jorge Posada is about to become a pinch hitter on the coming road trip to the NL, so Girardi gave him a start at DH today against the lefty. Posada has shown signs of life right-handed after the 0-for-27 start and there was another one, a tying RBI double to the left-center gap.

Update, 3:13: The Rangers had first and second, no outs in the seventh. After Andrus led off with a double, Girardi wisely order an intentional walk for Josh Hamilton. Michael Young then rapped into a 5-5-3 double play. Two outs, man on second. Boone Logan is warming.

Update, 3:16: Beltre flies to deep left-center, inning over.

Update, 3:24: C.J. Wilson has been good, now 2-2 heading for the eighth after a 1-2-3 last of the seventh. David Robertson will take the ball now for the Yankees.

Update, 3:40: Wilson is at 122 pitches with two outs and one on in the last of the eighth.

Update, 3:45: Posada goes down looking, so it’s 2-2, top nine. Mariano is on to pitch. Brett Gardner will replace Jones in left.

Update, 3:52: 1-2-3 for Rivera on three infield outs. Darren Oliver will come for the Rangers.

Update, 3:56: Martin rips a single to left to open the home ninth.

Update, 3:58: Nunez bunts the runner over. A-Rod will pinch hit for Pena, but he will get an intentional pass.

Update, 4:03: Swisher walks to the load the bases. Granderson is up.

Update, 4:06: Granderson goes down swinging, two outs, Teixeira up.

Update, 4:07: Yankees miss out on a great opportunity, Teixeira bounces to short.

Update, 4:15: One-hit 10th against Rivera. Lefty Michael Kirkman is coming on for Texas.

Update, 4:23: Gardner lines a one-out single into right-center.

Update, 4:27: Beltre gets a glove on Posada’s liner, catches it and turns it into a double play. 2-2, 11th inning. Cory Wade is coming on to pitch for the Yankees.

Update, 4:34: 1-2-3 inning for Wade, who’s off to a good start in his first two games here, had a perfect inning last night, too.

Update, 4:36: Amazing, Rocky clips still playing on the videoboard to pump everyone up 35 years after the fact.

Update, 4:41: One-out walk to Nunez. A-Rod up.

Update, 4:42: Liner to short, two outs. Swisher steps in.

Update, 4:44: Pop to center. On to the 12th. Wade will remain in the game.

Update, 4:51: Impressive work by Wade, another 1-2-3 inning, capped with a swinging strikeout by Josh Hamilton. Kirkman will stay in.

Update, 4:54: Leadoff bloop single to right by Curtis Granderson, his third single.

Update, 4:59: Kirkman hits Cano with a 93 mph fastball, although Ron Washington is arguing.

Update, 5:02: Brett Gardner walk-off single, Yankees win, 3-2. They sweep the series.