Sports: Pro Baseball: Yanks pull win from 13th inning

NYT's Tyler Kepner reports on a fantastic Major League Baseball game worthy of history-laden New York Yankees.

Oakland, Calif., April 14 – The Yankees lead the majors in errors, with 13 in their first 10 games. Their starting rotation is depleted by injuries, and their bullpen is exhausted. But they are always a threat to change a close game with one swing.

Alex Rodriguez hit his seventh home run of the season in the fifth inning.

It happened on Saturday at the Coliseum, when Jason Giambi belted a home run to right center off Lenny DiNardo in the 13th inning, leading the Yankees to a 4-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics.

"This could be a big early-season win," said Giambi, who had been 0 for 5. "We might look back and say, 'That was the beginning.' Hopefully, this is the one that really turns it around for us."

Kepner is an excellent sports writer; and you can well imagine, as this game continued 4 more innings beyond the 3-3 tie at the end of the 9th, the tension built up to give Kepner a game worth his skills. Then Giambi homered the tie-breaker, to show his batting prowess.