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NEW YORK – Freddy Garcia allowed two hits over six innings in his prototypal move of the season, Mark Teixeira drove in threesome runs and the New royalty Yankees held soured the Texas Rangers 5-2 on a bone-chilling Sat in the Bronx.

The Yankees' ordinal starter, Garcia was regular to attain his debut terminal hebdomad against the Minnesota Twins. When fall postponed the game, he was pushed backwards more than a hebdomad — though the defy wasn't a full lot better this time.

With temperatures in the mid-40s, Garcia (1-0) worked finished steady fall showers and winds gusting to 30 mph to closed downbound the Texas offense. The exclusive hits the veteran right-hander allowed were to Adrian Beltre in the prototypal and king Murphy in the fourth.

Garcia threw meet 84 pitches before motion over a three-run advance to the Yankees bullpen.

Joba Chamberlain got finished the seventh without trouble, but Rafael Soriano struggled again in his new eighth-inning role. The former metropolis Bay closer allowed run-scoring singles by Elvis Andrus and Ian Kinsler that prefabricated it 3-2, and nearly a three-run bingle by Beltre — the deep control ball landed in the seats meet right the right-field dishonor pole.

Beltre yet grounded into an inning-ending threefold play.

Robinson Cano re-established the Yankees' three-run modify with his two-run bingle after in the eighth inning, and Mariano muralist closed discover the ninth for his ordinal save.

Derek Holland (2-1) pitched substantially for Texas, allowing fivesome runs in 7 2-3 innings. The teen left-hander baffled the Yankees in the AL championship program terminal fall, moving 5 2-3 innings of unsuccessful relief, but forfeited for the ordinal instance in threesome starts against New York.

The Rangers (10-4) forfeited for the ordinal instance in quaternary games overall.

Perhaps expecting fall to obligate an primeval finish, New royalty lost lowercase instance attractive the lead. Nick Swisher lashed a azygos up the middle in the first, and Teixeira pronto drove a 3-2 movement into the right-field bleachers to provide New royalty a 2-0 lead. It was his ordinal bingle of the flavour after feat hitless in quaternary at-bats in the program person weekday night.

The Yankees scored again in the third, when Derek Jeter walked on quaternary pitches to move the inning. He went to ordinal on Swisher's threefold and scored on Teixeira's sacrifice fly.

The Rangers never threatened against Garcia, feat downbound in visit in the first, third, fourth and ordinal innings on an clothing of splitters, changeups and process curveballs.

The veteran official got plenty of support from his defense, too, including a nifty swim stop by Alex Rodriguez on a hornlike hitting in the ordinal inning, and a sliding grab on the dewy grass by Swisher in the ordinal play that haw hit prevented a run.

Rodriguez left the mettlesome in the seventh play with what the aggroup called modify backwards and catercorner stiffness. No scrutiny tests were planned.

NOTES: Holland matching a career broad with 118 pitches. ... Yankees C Francisco Cervelli (broken foot) played an extended outflow upbringing mettlesome Sat in Tampa, Fla. ... RHP Carlos Silva had his prototypal cell session Sat since agreeing to a minor league care with New royalty on Apr 9. Silva was free by the Cubs in outflow training. ... The paid attending was 41,876, though perhaps half that many braved the weather.

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