{"id":20362,"date":"2013-06-05T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:11:47","slug":"hafner-homers-in-yanks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20362","title":{"rendered":"Hafner Homers In Yanks Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; CC Sabathia took a perfect game into the fifth inning, then hung on to make early homers by Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner hold up for the New York Yankees in a 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sabathia gave up seven hits and struck out nine in his first complete game of the year for New York, which swept the Indians in three games to finish a homestand that began with two losses to the Mets and a 1-2 series against Boston. The Indians were swept in their only visit to the Bronx last season, too.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The left-hander went the distance and spared the Yankees bullpen after their top two relievers had pitched on consecutive nights.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hafner, who was Sabathia&#8217;s teammate in Cleveland when the Indians beat the Yankees in the 2007 AL Division Series, hit a two-run homer in the first inning off Corey Kluber (3-4), and Gardner added a three-run shot in the second following Chris Stewart&#8217;s RBI single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; CC Sabathia took a perfect game into the fifth inning, then hung on to make early homers by Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner hold up for the New York Yankees in a 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sabathia gave up seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20365,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}