MLB roundup: Bird's two homers power Yankees - Kotatv
Filling in while Mark Teixeira recovers from a bone bruise in his lower right leg, Bird homered in consecutive at-bats off right-hander Ervin Santana (2-4). He connected on a 0-1 changeup and sent it to the second deck in right field with two... Bird became the third Yankee since 1914 with a multi-home-run game within his first five major-league games. Bird's first home run gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead after Eovaldi retired the first 12 hitters. Eovaldi retired four more hitters before losing his perfect-game bid on a bloop single into shallow left field by Chris Herrmann, whose hit began a three-run sixth for the Twins. Source: www.kotatv.com
