Game recap: NYY vs BOS.

Only three games into the season and the Yankees have finally captured a monumental first win. Andy Pettitte fired maybe the best performance of the series and Mariano Rivera came in to close out the ninth. Giving the Yankees, win number 1, on the young season.

The 40 year old Pettitte tossed eight innings of one run ball, against the RedSox lineup that scored 15 runs, over their first two games.

Pettitte ran on a low pitch count all night. Making quick work of the Boston hitters. Cruising through the first six innings, the Red Sox didn't score until the 7th, on a Jackie Bradley double.

Ryan Dempster on the other hand, was forced labor through five innings. Throwing 58 strikes, on 101 pitches, allowing three runs, on five hits, and walking four Yankee hitters.

A couple of runs came in the third, when Lyle Overbay single a ball into left, scoring Hafner and Nunez.

Brett Gardner was first pitch swinging in the 3rd inning, when he sent a solo homerun to right field off Dempster. The 3rd Yankee homerun of the season.

Francisco Cervelli added a solo homerun of his own in the 8th. Sending it to the Red Sox bullpen off Clayton Mortensen.

Mariano Rivera is in his 19th and final season the big leagues, and started off right. After allowing a run, Rivera struck out Jackie Bradley looking, to end the game, for his 1st save of 2013. And a, 4-2, Yankees win.

The Yankees will now head to Detroit, to start a seven-game Road Trip, beginning with the Tigers, then the Indians for, four games.

Ivan Nova will face Doug Fister and the dangers Tigers lineup, Friday afternoon at 1:05 ET, from Comerica Park.

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