That didn't take long. Jeremy Guthrie had been pitching pretty well heading into the bottom of the fourth inning, but the Yankees just put four runs on him and are now leading 4-1 with CC Sabathia on the mound.
In fairness to Guthrie, he could have gotten out of the inning without allowing a run had second baseman Ty Wigginton been able to turn Jorge Posada's hard smash into an inning-ending double play. Instead, Wigginton couldn't field it cleanly and he had to settle for taking the one out. It wasn't an easy play by any means as Posada scalded the ball, but it could have been made.
But Guthrie still has to shoulder plenty of blame for the four-run outburst. And not because Nick Swisher hit an RBI single to score the first run and improve to 12-for-23 with two homers and 9 RBIs off Guthrie. But the big blow in the inning was Guthrie allowing a three-run homer to No.9 hitter Randy Wynn, who entered the game hitting .077 with no homers and no RBIs.
Wynn snapped a 491 at-bat streak without a homer. It was also his first homer since April 25, 2009 when he was a member of the San Francisco Giants.