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which is why i think Jeter will win even more now.

yeah but i dont think he will win still because of captain clutch

i dont give a dam but Jeter is leading his team unlike ortiz

Yanks quieted by Twins rookie
NEW YORK -- The Yankees had a pair of insurmountable factors going against them Saturday.
First, there was Twins starter Scott Baker, who seems to save his best stuff for the Yankees. Then there was the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto, whose winds knocked down a pair of likely home runs and whose rains caused the game to end in the bottom of the eighth with the Twins ahead, 6-1.

In the end, it all spelled a soggy loss for the Yankees.

All wasn't lost as Yankees rookie starter Jeff Karstens had yet another quality start, allowing just two runs in seven innings of work. But he was topped by Baker, who allowed just two hits and one run in five innings.

"It's difficult to win with two hits," Derek Jeter said.

Baker, who entered the game 3-7 with a 6.93 ERA, also dominated the Yankees on April 14, allowing just one run in seven innings. Asked what he thought about Baker, Torre said, "The same thing I thought of him last time."

"He obviously has not pitched against the rest of the league like he's pitched against us," Torre said. "He moves balls both ways; he sinks it, he cuts it."

The pitches weren't the only things ducking and diving. Numerous seemingly-harmless popups made both teams' players look like they were dizzy.

While the weather helped the Twins, it hurt the Yankees. Robinson Cano clobbered a ball to right field in the second, bringing the Yankees to the top of the dugout steps. But it was knocked down by the wind and caught at the warning track, leaving the Yankees simply laughing at the spectacle.

When it happened again to Alex Rodriguez in the fourth, it wasn't funny anymore. A-Rod hit a pitch to dead center field that barely made Torii Hunter move, then he came back to the dugout and told Torre he felt like he crushed it.

"I don't think I've seen him hit a ball that hard," Yankees catcher Sal Fasano said. "It's like somebody threw a parachute on it. On any other day, that ball is way up in the black [batter's eye]."

The Twins scored in the first on a sacrifice fly to shallow right that danced around enough to force Bobby Abreu to have to slide to catch it, eliminating his chance of holding or throwing out the runner.

Jeter tied the game in the third with a double to right-center field, scoring Aaron Guiel, who walked to lead off the inning.

But Hunter hit a tailing fastball deep to left-center in the fourth for the eventual game-winning home run. Justin Morneau ripped a low three-run homer right down the third-base line off Ron Villone in the eighth.

"When you get it up high, it doesn't matter how hard you hit it," Torre said. "Torii didn't get his ball very high and it got out of the ballpark in a hurry, and Morneau the same thing. It looked like the winds changed when Morneau hit his, not like it didn't deserve to get out."

The Yankees may not have deserved a win Saturday, but they likely deserved a little better than what they got -- a tough day at the plate, a 44-minute rain delay and a loss.

Ortiz is more valuable to the Redsox then Jeter is the to Yankee

David Ortiz singled, doubled, and tripled yesterday, driving in 4 and giving him 125 RBI's on the season.

Wow Ortiz got more HR then Jeter eek