Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Yankees 4, Oakland 2
When: 1:05 PM ET, Saturday, May 4, 2013
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Temperature: 64°
Umpires: Home - Tim McClelland, 1B - Jerry Meals, 2B - Marvin Hudson, 3B - Jordan Baker
Attendance: 41349

Yankees 4, Athletics 2: Phil Hughes threw eight scoreless innings and Chris Stewart and Lyle Overbay belted solo home runs as host New York evened its series with Oakland.

Hughes (1-2) finally broke into the win column in his sixth start, scattering four hits and tying his season high with nine strikeouts as the Yankees improved to 7-2 on their 10-game homestand. Hughes retired the final 10 batters he faced in his longest outing since last July 1.

Athletics right-hander Bartolo Colon (3-1) failed to make it through six innings for the first time in six starts, giving up three runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Stewart put New York ahead to stay leading off the third, turning on an inside fastball from Colon and lining it down the left-field line and into the seats for his second homer. Overbay delivered a more majestic blast in the fifth, reaching the second deck in right for his fifth homer.

The Yankees added a pair of key insurance runs on RBI singles by Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner for a 4-0 lead through seven innings before Oakland scratched out a pair of runs in the ninth off Shawn Kelley and closer Mariano Rivera.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Yankees 2B Robinson Cano's double in the sixth inning gave him 344 for his career, tying him with Mickey Mantle for eighth place on the all-time franchise list. ... Athletics OF Seth Smith, who became the first player in franchise history to strike out four times in consecutive games Wednesday and Friday, finished 2-for-4 with an RBI on Saturday. ... Oakland placed OF Chris Young (quadriceps) on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 30 and called up OF Michael Taylor from Triple-A Sacramento.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Oakland   NY Yankees
Bartolo Colon Player Phil Hughes
Loss W/L Win
5.1 IP 8.0
3 Strikeouts 9
6 Hits 4
5.06 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Oakland   NY Yankees
Yoenis Cespedes Player Lyle Overbay
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 1
2 TB 6
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Oakland 6 0 7 .188 14 9 2 3 0 1
NY Yankees 8 2 18 .242 8 6 4 0 0 0