Payback

UPDATE: It's a win for the Yankees, in a game that saw Paul McCartney, Lorne Michaels and Jack Nicholson in the front row. Rats. I should have been there.

The Yankees are getting payback at Yankee Stadium, leading the Texas Rangers 9-2 in the bottom of the seventh.

As I write, A-Rod is at the plate with no outs, and New York has scored five runs in the frame.

It's just the kind of game Andy Pettitte needed to get back on track. After starting the season as New York's most reliable pitcher, he went through a dry spell then a spate of bad luck, watching his ERA shoot up and gathering a wad of no-decisions. (The Yankees' recent 20-11 win over the Red Sox was marred by Pettitte pitching a gem until a 38-minute inning by the Yankees batters that threw the lefty off his mark when he came back out to pitch again.)

Tonight, he's allowed only two runs and pitched a full seven innings, striking out seven.

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