View from the Seats: A's at Yankees

Back at the big ballpark in the Bronx tonight on a beautiful night for baseball to see the New York Yankees host the Oakland Athletics. Tonight I'm sitting in Main 231, row 3.

The Yankees got down early in this one, but great defense and a few big hits have given them a 2-1 lead in the 7th.

CC Sabathia has been hit hard but the only big hit off of him was a solo bomb by Coco Crisp. He's also been helped out by some nice defense. The A's speedy second baseman Weeks hit one into the rightcenter gap to leadoff an inning but a nice relay from Granderson to Cano to Nunez got Weeks at 3rd. The most amazing part of that play was seeing the birthday boy, Brett Gardner, SPRINT in from leftfield to back up third base in case of an overthrow. He ran so fast he beat Sabathia there.

Nick Swisher's homerun gave the Yankees the lead in the bottom of the 6th and CC and the Yankees bullpen will try to hold them here. That's tonight's report from a packed house in the Bronx.

-Andrew