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Bay breeze: Yanks sweep A’s, win 5th in row
- Updated: May 22, 2016
OAKLAND — A two-run sixth inning and home runs from Brian McCann and Jacoby Ellsbury propelled the Yankees to a 5-4 win and a sweep of the A’s Sunday at the Coliseum.
New York won its fifth game in a row and has won eight of its last 10. It took all four games from Oakland, marking the first time the A’s were swept at home in a four-game series since April 26-29, 1999 against the Indians.
The Yankees tagged A’s starter Jesse Hahn for four earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. He gave up solo homers to McCann in the second and Ellsbury in the third before putting two runners on in the sixth inning. Hahn was lifted with a 3-2 lead in favor of John Axford, who gave up back-to-back RBI singles to Mark Teixeira and Starlin Castro, giving New York a 4-3 lead.
Yankees starter Michael Pineda, who entered with a 6.60 ERA and winless in his last seven starts, earned his second win, allowing three runs over six innings while striking out six. New York tacked on a run in the seventh on a two-out RBI double by Carlos Beltran off Sean Doolittle.
The A’s rallied for one run in the eighth on an RBI from Billy Butler, but stranded two runners to end the inning.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDYanks strike back: Trailing by a run in the sixth, the Yankees chased Hahn and grabbed the lead as …
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