Sat May 10 18:57:18 2008

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Jeter homers as Yankees win in Detroit

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Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Bobby Abreu went 2-for-4, knocked in a run and scored two runs as the New York Yankees topped the Detroit Tigers, 5-2, in the second of a three-game series at Comerica Park.

The teams have split the first two games of the weekend set, with the Tigers taking a 6-5 win on Friday.

Derek Jeter went 2-for-5 with a solo homer and scored twice for the Yankees, who snapped a six-game losing streak at Detroit. Jason Giambi, Melky Cabrera and Wilson Betemit all drove in runs for New York.

Darrell Rasner (2-0) picked up the win after holding the Tigers to two runs on four hits in six-plus innings. Kyle Farnsworth, Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera combined for three scoreless innings, with Rivera notching his 10th save.

Matt Joyce hit his first major league homer for the Tigers, who have lost seven of nine. Magglio Ordonez went 2-for-4, and Gary Sheffield added a run- scoring double. Jeremy Bonderman (2-4) lasted just four-plus frames, allowing five runs on six hits while issuing four walks.

In the first, Jeter lofted a line drive that carried over the fence in right, his first home run in 129 at-bats this season. Abreu and Hideki Matsui ripped back-to-back singles up the middle, then walks to Giambi and Cabrera forced in a run. But, Robinson Cano laced a sharp grounder to second that started a 4-6-3 double play.

Joyce cut the lead in half with a homer to right-center in the bottom half.

Bonderman settled down until the fourth, when Cano worked a two-out walk, then Betemit launched a long fly ball over Curtis Granderson's head in center for a double. Betemit pulled up with a hamstring injury running the bases and was replaced by Morgan Ensberg.

Jeter singled to lead off the fifth, and came all the way in to score on Abreu's double to left that chased Bonderman. One out later, Giambi laced an RBI double to right off Bobby Seay that pushed the lead to four.

Ordonez singled to start the seventh to chase Rasner for Farnsworth, who allowed a single by Miguel Cabrera before Sheffield smashed a grounder down the left field line for a double that scored Ordonez. But, the Tigers couldn't get another ball out of the infield as Farnsworth retired three straight to preserve the lead.

Chamberlain pitched a perfect eighth inning, and Rivera worked around a leadoff single by Ordonez in the ninth to lock down the save.

Game Notes

Jeter's homerless streak was the longest of his career to start a season...Andy Pettitte (3-3) gets the call for the Yankees on Sunday against Nate Robertson (1-4) in the series finale...Attendance was 44,580, the largest non-Opening Day crowd in Comerica Park history.