Peralta comes up big in win over Yankees

The P-Rizzle himself was hot today, and he carried the Tribe to a big opening series win against the Yankees. With the two young guys making their first starts this season, it is nice to get this win under the belt.

Peralta leads offense: Jhonny Peralta provided most of the offense tonight. He had a big hit in the first inning after Pettitte walked Martinez. Later in the game with two outs after consecutive hits from Hafner and Victor, Peralta took a 3-1 offering up and over the wall in left field.

He was simply on point tonight, Pettitte didn't want any part of Vic and he paid the price.

Franklin Gutierrez also had a big solo home run. Pettitte fell behind him as well and gave up a big old beach ball toss that Franklin sent plenty of rows back in the bleachers.

Jamey Carroll added a bloop single to score Grady.

Byrd Decent: Can't complain about 5+ with 4 runs. Giambi was the only guy he struggled with.. He just couldn't pitch him anything.

Matsui touched him up as well, but for the most part Paul Byrd did a good job keeping the likes of A-Rod in check.

Still he needs to be able to go at least another inning. Thankfully Cliff Lee saved our bullpen last night so it was ready to go. Perez worked 2.1 innings of one hit baseball and Rafael Betancourt got save number two.

Tomorrow is a early evening game on FOX, it is Ian Kennedy vs Jeremy Sowers.

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