After two devastating losses earlier this week to the Orioles under the pitching leadership of Rasner and Hawkins, Pettitte and Mussina redeemed their team, inspiring hope to their New York ticket buying fans. Pettitte led the Yankees to a a 4-2 win over the Orioles on Wednesday. And Mussina helped boost the Yankees into a 6-5 win over the Twins on Friday.

Pettitte was well matched against the Baltimore. He has a 23-6 career record against the Orioles, which turned out to be exactly what the Yankees needed in a series that left them down 2 games. He only allowed two runs through his six innings.

Pettitte made a game winning play against Brian Roberts. After his third hit of the night, a one-out double, Roberts was eying third base. While pitching to Melvin Mora, Pettitte shot the ball to second, catching the runner off base and out.

Mussina is proving himself a valuable starter this year with 8 wins. What’s impressive about Mussina is his ability to not get rattled by early errors. Everyone makes mistakes. But great players learn to shake it off and come back tough.

He showed this skill Friday against the Twin.  Allowing a major rally by Minnesota in the beginning of the game, he changed up his strategy and held the Twins scoreless for 5 innings.  This allowed his teammates, led by Bobby Abreu to score 6 runs, winning the game.

Tuesday night was a time for Yankee hitters, Bobby Abreu and Johnny Damon. Wednesday night was an evening for Mike Mussina. Between the two games, the Yankees managed two wins against the Chicago White Sox, a team with a lot of hopes this year, hopes that seem to be pipe dreams thanks to a strong performance from the New York team.

On Tuesday, Abreu hit a grand slam in the seventh inning. Johnny Damon also had a great night with a three run play in the eighth to solidify the win.

The Daily News quotes Damon about the two non-superstar’s performances:

“When you have superstars like Jeter, A-Rod, Posada, those guys are going to get most of the attention. That’s all right with Bobby and me, because we can just lay in the weeds and do our thing.”

Then there’s Mike Mussina on Wednesday, playing his best game of the season. This marvelous performance came in response to some harsh criticism from Hank Steinbrenner. He held the Sox to two runs and four hits in over seven innings.

Between the two, the Yankees are showing themselves capable of winning games against good teams. It gets one excited about buying more tickets to more Yankees games this season.

Here at SelectATicket we sell a lot of NY Yankee tickets. It’s one of our top selling sports tickets, and this year will be no different. In fact, it should be better for one reason. What makes this year especially unique is that it’s the last time fans can see the Yankees play in the famous and historic Yankee stadium. The stadium is being torn down and a new Yankee stadium is being built nearby.

Talk about nostalgia. There are so many memories at the stadium, so many famous games played were played there. The Yankee Stadium in New York city (the Bronx to be specific) has been host to NY Yankees home games since the year 1923. It can hold 57,545 fans. Not only for baseball, Yankee stadium has been the home of the New York Giants football team, and once hosted dozens of boxing’s most famous fights.

There have been more World Series championships there than anywhere. The stadium is affectionately nicknamed, “The House that Ruth Built”, because superstar Babe Ruth had a winning history there.

Construction on the new stadium began in 2006 and cost $1.3 billion. The tickets to see the New York Yankees play for the last time at their original home will go fast. Read about this season and NY Yankees tickets in our most recent press release.