NEW YORK -- Hideki Matsui homered in both games of a doubleheader on Wednesday against the Minnesota Twins as the New York Yankees swept the twinbill, 5-3 and 5-4, to move to the verge of clinching their seventh straight AL East title.
New York's Hideki Matsui watches his three-run homer in the first inning of the second game of a doubleheader between the Yankees and the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday. New York swept the twinbill, 5-3 and 5-4.
Matsui, who batted sixth in the lineup in the first game, ignited a four-run seventh inning with a solo shot off J.C. Romero and hit a first-inning three-run homer in the nightcap from the cleanup spot off Kyle Lohse for his 30th homer of the season.
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