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Derek Jeter stole the hitting headlines with two singles to move past Babe Ruth for sole possession of second place on the Yankees' all-time hit list. Lou Gehrig and Ruth had occupied the top two spots on the Yankees' all-time hits list for the last 70 years, but Jeter changed that Tuesday night with a first-inning single. Jeter's single in the seventh gave him 2,520 hits, 201 behind Lou Gehrig's 2,721. "That's a pretty big name to be passing," said Joe Girardi, whose team moved within 81/2 games of the Red Sox in the wild-card race with 17 to play. "When he goes home for the winter, he's sitting around and he sees the ball, I think he's going to enjoy it." "It's kind of hard to believe," Jeter said. "It just sounds funny. I've been fortunate to play my entire career here. Any time you're mentioned in the sentence with names like that it feels good." |
| Jeter has 1,260 hits at Yankee Stadium, nine shy of Gehrig’s record, with 10 games remaining there. |