王建民6勝到手

Chien-Ming Wang earned his sixth win of the season, allowing three runs over 6 2/3 innings. He got help from several of his teammates, as five Yankees each drove in a run.

"It seems like he's been here forever," said catcher Jorge Posada. "He knows how to pitch, does the things to keep us in the game."

Grady Sizemore got the Indians going in a flash, drilling the first pitch of the game over the right-field wall for his ninth home run of the year. Coco Crisp followed with a single, but Wang got Travis Hafner to ground into a double play -- the first of three that Wang would induce.

"He showed a lot of grit tonight," Torre said. "The fact that he gave up a home run on the first pitch, then winds up with a double play in the inning to keep the damage where it was, that was important."

"I think about the next hitter, and I try to get that hitter out," Wang said without the aid of a translator. "Control not too good today. In the first inning, a little bit slippery."

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Wang tossed up zeroes in the third and fourth, but the Indians cut the lead to one in the fifth, as Jody Gerut scored from third on a wild pitch. The inning could have been much worse, but after putting the first two men on base, Wang got Sizemore to ground into a 4-6-3 double play, leaving just Gerut at third.

"It looked like he was on the brink of something disastrous, and he got two double-play balls," Torre said. "For not having his good stuff, he kept us in the game. He's been huge for us."

"The guy is ice out there," Giambi said. "He never has any expression. He can be in a jam, and he still goes out and throws strikes."

New York manufactured another run in the sixth to boost the lead back to two, as Posada's sac fly made it a 5-3 game.

Wang left the game after Boone's third hit of the game, a two-out single in the seventh, brought Sizemore up representing the tying run.