A fun night up in the Bronx. It was one of those games the Yankees had to keep fighting to win, but somehow, you had a feeling they would. Down 2-0, then 4-2, the Yanks tied the game in the seventh on Jorge Posada’s RBI single and won it in the tenth when Derek Jeter hit a slow dribbler to second to plate Robinson Cano. Not a bad end to Derek Jeter figurine night (see photo).

Personally, I received limited edition figurine number 8,113 of 20,000. As you can see, it emulates Jeter’s patented jump throw, but what you may not be able to tell is that the face looks a lot more like an aged Mickey Mantle than the Yankee Captain. I mean, there are even pronounced wrinkles on it for some reason. Clearly, the art student who designed this masterpiece didn’t have time to look at one of the 12 billion photos of Jeter online…that said, you may be able to find limited edition number 8,113 on Ebay very soon…

So Andy Pettitte got robbed of another win tonight and remains 3-4 on the season. His ERA bumped up from 2.96 to 3.11 because Melky Cabrera misjudged a ball coming right at him in center field which could have been the third out of the seventh inning. Instead, it went for a two-run inside the park home run. After the game Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter and Joe Torre all came to Cabrera’s defense saying that the ball “knuckled” on the young outfielder making it very tough to catch. I guess so…I haven’t played center field since eighth grade so who am I to judge.

Anyway, the Yanks hung in and Mariano Rivera went two scoreless innings to pick up the win. Torre told reporters after the game that Mo was off limits for tomorrow. Seems like the pre-season plan of keeping Mariano to one inning at a time is out the window — a plan that the Yankee closer was just fine with when speaking from his locker after the game.

And now, a few notes from the game/post-game:

*The Yankees have switched from using a Rocky I montage to a clip from Rocky VI where Sly looks way too old to be inspiring…hopefully that’s not commentary on the Yankee team as a whole.

*Yankee Stadium shook as Posada tied the game in the seventh…Yankee fans have been looking to celebrate something for a while.

*While Derek Jeter batted in the eighth inning I had my headphones plugged into my laptop and was rolling through everything in iTunes. As Jeter dug in, the theme from Superman came on and it fit like a glove. The Yankee P.A. guys need to roll this every time he comes to the plate in late-inning situations…and then leave it on throughout the at-bat.

*The Superman theme still comes in second behind the greatest entrance in pro sports, Mariano’s Enter Sandman.