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New york Yankees won over Minnesota Twins with scores 7 - 2

Watch replay for the game as Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter delivers their homer.

Jeter's homer to left field in the third inning tied the score at two and was appropriately the first postseason home run hit at new Yankee Stadium.

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The New York Yankees won their first playoff game in their new ball park with a 7-2 win over the Minnesota Twins in game one of their opening round Major League Baseball series.

Japan's Hideki Matsui blasted a two-run homer and pitcher CC Sabathia struck out eight batters for New York in front of a crowd of 49,464 at Yankee Stadium.

Derek Jeter also homered and went two-for-two with two RBI and three runs scored and Alex Rodriguez drove in two runs for the Yankees who won their eighth straight against the Twins this year with no losses.

The eight strikeouts was a career playoff high for Sabathia who gave up two runs including one earned.

Rodriguez batted two-for-four and scored a run for New York, who won the AL East for the 10th time in the last 12 years with a MLB-best 103 wins.

Heading into the American League first round playoff series, Rodriguez was a disappointing seven-for-44 over the past three post-season series for the Yankees. Nick Swisher also finished with an RBI for the Yankees.

Michael Cuddyer had the only RBI for Minnesota, who were seven games out of first place at one point and became the first team to earn a playoff spot trailing by three with four games to play.

Orlando Cabrera and Joe Mauer both had two hits and scored in the loss.

Twins pitcher Brian Duensing gave up five runs on seven hits with a walk and three strikeouts.