Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Andy Pettitte had a pitch limit of about 75 pitches against the Blue Jays.
Andy Pettitte made a successful return to the pitcher's mound Wednesday afternoon, holding the Toronto Blue Jays scoreless for five innings and giving the Yankees a reassuring lift for the final two weeks of the season.
Pettitte had a pitch limit of about 75 pitches, and he hit that on the dot, allowing four hits and two walks as the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-2, in the first game of a doubleheader.
Pettitte (4-3) had not pitched since June 27, when a batted ball hit him in the lower left leg and caused a nondisplaced fracture. His rehabilitation from the injury proceeded on schedule, but because the minor league seasons had ended, he was not able to pitch in those games as part of his rehabilitation, as is standard procedure for injured players.
He relied on simulated games instead, pitching against teammates in empty stadiums before real games. He pitched in three of those, reaching 55 pitches in the last one, but he consistently expressed confidence that the process would prove sufficient. He was right.
The atmosphere for Wednesday's first game, a makeup game after Tuesday night's game was rained out, was not dissimilar to those quiet simulated games he threw at Boston and Tampa Bay. Yankee Stadium was subdued and more than half-empty when Pettitte jogged out from the dugout a little after 1 p.m.
His first pitch, an 88-mile-per-hour fastball, was a strike to Rajai Davis, and most of his fastballs were from 88 to 90 miles an hour. He allowed base runners in each of the first four innings, and entered the fifth inning only seven pitches below the pitch limit.
He struck out Davis looking at a curveball, then got Colby Rasmus to ground out on his 74th pitch. With his final pitch, he induced a groundout from Brett Lawrie.
The Blue Jays broke through in the eighth when the first three batters got hits off reliever Dave Robertson to draw to 3-1. Then, with runners on first and second Omar Vizquel doubled into the right-field corner to make it 3-2. Vizquel passed Babe Ruth for 41st place on the career hits list with 2,874. But Kelly Johnson, representing the tying run, held at third base. Robertson struck out Adeiny Hechavarria and then gave way to Rafael Soriano, who walked Anthony Gose to load the bases. Davis then hit a line drive straight at left fielder Ichiro Suzuki, who was running directly at the ball. Suzuki appeared to envelope it in his midsection as he fell to the ground, but he held on for the final out of the inning.
In the ninth inning Soriano set down the Blue Jays in order, striking out J. P. Arencibia for the final out to record his 41st save.
By DAVID WALDSTEIN 20 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/sports/baseball/pettittes-return-gives-yankees-a-late-season-lift.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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