TAMPA, Fla. -- Mark Teixeira hit his first home run of the spring and Dustin Ackley delivered a key two-run double, lifting the Yankees to a 3-2 Grapefruit League victory over the Tigers on Monday night at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
Teixeira recently identified a flaw in his timing that was prompting him to hit the ball on the ground, and his corrections produced a seventh-inning homer off Logan Kensing. Ackley's go-ahead hit came in the eighth inning off Adam Ravenelle.
"He always has a plan of how to get ready in Spring Training, and I respect that plan and how he goes about it," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of Teixeira.