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Friday, Mar. 31 8:05pm ET
Houston 6, New York 5 | |||||
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HOUSTON (AP) _ Ricky Ledee homered for the second straight day at Enron Field, but Lance Berkman won the game for the Houston Astros on Friday night. Berkman's ninth inning homer broke a tie and kept the Houston Astros unbeaten in two games in their new downtown stadium with a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees. Ledee hit the first home run in the new ball park on Thursday night as the Yankees lost 6-5. Ledee homered again in the eighth inning Friday to give New York a 5-4 lead it couldn't hold. The Astros, who won in their last at-bat for the eighth time this spring, tied it in the eighth on Julio Lugo's sacrifice fly and won on Berkman's homer off Mike Stanton. Doug Henry pitched the ninth for the victory. The Astros' new home has agreed with Jeff Bagwell, who went 2-for-3 with two RBIs after getting three hits in the opener. Jorge Posada hit a solo homer in the fifth inning that tied the score at 3 and hit an RBI double in the sixth that tied the score at 4. Bagwell had put the Astros ahead 4-3 with a run-scoring single in the fifth inning. The Astros took a 3-0 lead in the third inning off David Cone on an RBI groundout by Craig Biggio and run-scoring singles by Bagwell and Ken Caminiti. Cone, making his final start before the regular season, allowed four runs and nine hits in 4 1-3 innings. Jose Lima allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings.
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