Brian Damage
05-16-2009, 10:40 PM
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/176787-brett-gardners-otherworldly-homer-proves-more-powerful-than-coincidence
In a center-field coincidence, the two players who competed for that job had the biggest moments for the Yankees. Brett Gardner hit the Yankees' first inside-the-park home run in nearly 10 years in the seventh inning - hours after accepting a bracelet from a ill little girl during a hospital visit that she told him would help him hit a homer - to get the Yanks within two runs.
In a center-field coincidence, the two players who competed for that job had the biggest moments for the Yankees. Brett Gardner hit the Yankees' first inside-the-park home run in nearly 10 years in the seventh inning - hours after accepting a bracelet from a ill little girl during a hospital visit that she told him would help him hit a homer - to get the Yanks within two runs.