Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 50°
Umpires: Home - Ed Rapuano, 1B - Tom Hallion, 2B - Ron Kulpa, 3B - Lance Barksdale
Attendance: 19849
Javier Vazquez had his first solid start of the season and the New York Yankees secured a 7-3 victory over the host Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
Vazquez (1-2) allowed three runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings in New York’s fifth win in a row.
The Yankees scored three runs in the first on Jorge Posada’s run-scoring single off Gio Gonzalez (1-1) and Nick Swisher’s two-run single.
New York’s lead increased to 6-0 in the top of the fifth on Alex Rodriguez’s three-run homer.
Oakland got on the board in the bottom of the fifth on Travis Buck’s first homer of the season. Kurt Suzuki hit a two-run blast in the sixth to pull the A’s within 6-3.
The game was delayed for 13 minutes in the bottom of the sixth inning after home plate umpire Ed Rapuano took a foul ball in the chin and was unable to continue. Second-base umpire Ron Kupla took over behind the plate.
| NY Yankees | Oakland | |
| Javier Vazquez | Player | Gio Gonzalez |
| Win | W/L | Loss |
| 5.1 | IP | 4.1 |
| 6 | Strikeouts | 5 |
| 6 | Hits | 3 |
| 5.06 | ERA | 10.38 |
| NY Yankees | Oakland | |
| Alex Rodriguez | Player | Kurt Suzuki |
| 1 | Hits | 2 |
| 3 | RBI | 2 |
| 1 | HR | 1 |
| 4 | TB | 5 |
| .500 | Avg | .500 |
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| NY Yankees | 5 | 1 | 9 | .161 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Oakland | 8 | 2 | 15 | .250 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |