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Saturday afternoon at the Stadium, the Yankees won their second straight game against the Seattle Mariners, 6-1. Mike Mussina gave the Yankees a strong 6 innings of one-run ball, during which he struck out five and walked none.

Mike Mussina (4-3), who won his third consecutive start, has given up just five earned runs in 18 innings during that stretch. The victory was the 254th of his career. The bullpen combination of Hawkins, Ramirez, and Veras held the Mariners to no runs on 1 hit in 3 innings of work.

Johnny Damon was the story offensively, as he doubled and scored in his first two at-bats and put the Yankees ahead by five runs with a two-run homer, his fourth, in the sixth inning. Damon led off the bottom of the first with a double to right-center field, and then scored the first run of the game on a single by Bobby Abreu.
In the 3rd inning, Damon got it started again, as he ripped another double, and Jeter followed with a double of his own to score Damon. Later on in the 6th inning, Damon hit a 2 run homer, to give the Yankees a 6-1 lead.

The Yankees go into Sundays game looking for a much needed sweep of the series. Darrell Rasner will get his first start of the season, in place of an injured Phil Hughes.

GAME NOTES:
MUSSINA: 6IP, 7H, 1ER, 5SO
DAMON: 3-5, HR, 2RBI
JETER: 3-5, RBI
ABREU: 2-4, RBI
CABRERA: 2-4, RBI

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