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Brett Gardner Daily Update: April 22, 2010

Gardner continues to produce, at least against right handed pitching.

In last night's win for the New York Yankees against the Oakland Athletics, Gardner was 2-3 with a walk and a run batted in. What is more, the RBI came with two outs in the ninth. The Yankees held a precarious one-run lead after Phil Hughes had taken a no-hitter into the eighth inning, and Gardner's RBI added an insurance run.

Gardner was less impressive in the opening game of the three-game series in Oakland on Tuesday night when he went 0-3 against a left handed pitcher.

But Gardner is hitting .333 over the Yankees first 14 games and deserves to be the regular left fielder at this point.

Joe Girardi should abandon the idea of platooning Gardner ...

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