Let's hear it for the Jete

Derek Jeter is now batting .330 after his third straight game with three hits. (He's batting 20-for-36 (.556) over the last nine games.) Tonight his RBI sparked a five-run sixth inning, leading the Yankees to a 7-2 win over the Oakland Athletics.

CC Sabathia picked eight strong innings for New York, breaking the team's two-game losing streak and winning his 14th game this season, which ties him for the Major League lead (with Boston's Josh Beckett, of all people, and the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright).

Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Melky Cabrera all went 2-for-4 in the win. Jorge Posada collected 2 RBI on a double.

The only bad news was that the Yankees scored a mere seven runs after loading the bases in the first, fourth and sixth innings. A total of 20 men were left on base throughout the night.

After one more game against Oakland tomorrow night, the Yankees get a day off before going into Boston for a three-game series over the weekend.

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